[Linux-parport] [PATCH] docs: driver-api: parport-lowlevel: remove sentence about PARPORT_MODE_PCSPP and direct register writes

Alex Henrie alexhenrie24 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 08:32:06 PDT 2024


According to the discussion on the mailing list, PARPORT_MODE_PCSPP
merely means that the SPP functions are functional; it does not imply
low latency.

Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2024-March/001308.html
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst
index 0633d70ffda7..0ea17938f1ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/parport-lowlevel.rst
@@ -154,11 +154,7 @@ The ``modes`` member summarises the capabilities of the underlying
 hardware.  It consists of flags which may be bitwise-ored together:
 
   ============================= ===============================================
-  PARPORT_MODE_PCSPP		IBM PC registers are available,
-				i.e. functions that act on data,
-				control and status registers are
-				probably writing directly to the
-				hardware.
+  PARPORT_MODE_PCSPP		SPP functions are available.
   PARPORT_MODE_TRISTATE		The data drivers may be turned off.
 				This allows the data lines to be used
 				for reverse (peripheral to host)
-- 
2.47.0




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