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| author |   Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2006-03-24 03:15:42 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-24 07:33:19 -0800 |
| commit | f993b3bf80b23d329951fe0fc5ba3647d5d912e9 (patch) | |
| tree | fe10d2cc0d96487c08ba5f4d385111350c934e2c /Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl | |
| parent | [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove the helpers (diff) | |
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[PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove documentation
This patch removes the documentation of the ISA legacy functions.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl | 19 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl index 6f41f2f5c6f6..90ed23df1f68 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl @@ -270,25 +270,6 @@ CPU B: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags) </para> </sect1> - <sect1> - <title>ISA legacy functions</title> - <para> - On older kernels (2.2 and earlier) the ISA bus could be read or - written with these functions and without ioremap being used. This is - no longer true in Linux 2.4. A set of equivalent functions exist for - easy legacy driver porting. The functions available are prefixed - with 'isa_' and are <function>isa_readb</function>, - <function>isa_writeb</function>, <function>isa_readw</function>, - <function>isa_writew</function>, <function>isa_readl</function>, - <function>isa_writel</function>, <function>isa_memcpy_fromio</function> - and <function>isa_memcpy_toio</function> - </para> - <para> - These functions should not be used in new drivers, and will - eventually be going away. - </para> - </sect1> - </chapter> <chapter> |