OS BUG: we don't check resource allocations before enabling those
resources. The sequence would make more sense if we called
pci_request_resources() before calling pci_enable_device().
- Currently, the device drivers can't detect the bug when when two
+ Currently, the device drivers can't detect the bug when two
devices have been allocated the same range. This is not a common
problem and unlikely to get fixed soon.
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.. note::
If anything below doesn't make sense, please refer to
- Documentation/DMA-API.txt. This section is just a reminder that
+ :doc:`/core-api/dma-api`. This section is just a reminder that
drivers need to indicate DMA capabilities of the device and is not
an authoritative source for DMA interfaces.
Setup shared control data
-------------------------
Once the DMA masks are set, the driver can allocate "consistent" (a.k.a. shared)
-memory. See Documentation/DMA-API.txt for a full description of
+memory. See :doc:`/core-api/dma-api` for a full description of
the DMA APIs. This section is just a reminder that it needs to be done
before enabling DMA on the device.
Then clean up "consistent" buffers which contain the control data.
-See Documentation/DMA-API.txt for details on unmapping interfaces.
+See :doc:`/core-api/dma-api` for details on unmapping interfaces.
Unregister from other subsystems