cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 bus_dma.9

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Wed Mar 1 15:33:30 PST 2006


Ruslan Ermilov wrote this message on Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:26 +0200:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:58:57PM +0000, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > jmg         2006-02-28 19:58:57 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     share/man/man9       bus_dma.9 
> >   Log:
> >   update examples to use the correct terms that was never updated when the
> >   earlier descriptions were gone over...
> >   
> >   MFC after:      3 days
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.32      +3 -3      src/share/man/man9/bus_dma.9
> > 
> Not enough of fixing: "DMA read" and "DMA write" are also entangled here.

Nope...  WRITE == DMA read...  Read the descriptions of the flags
very carefully...  If you aren't confused, you don't understand it..
The reason you're confused is the reason why everyone gets it wrong,
and no one ever gets it correct the first time trying to figure out
which one to use...

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