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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>2006-06-25 05:49:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-25 10:01:24 -0700
commitb0ef371e3f9fa3b2571058be366a6780827ec0bf (patch)
treefbb46d62e8267b364ab420228b764220b709524f /drivers/firmware
parente905914f96e11862b130dd229f73045dad9a34e8 (diff)
[PATCH] DMI: cleanup kernel-doc, add to DocBook
Add DMI interface functions to a new Firmware Interfaces chapter in the kernel-api DocBook. Clean up kernel-doc in drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index 948bd7e1445..b9e3886d9e1 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -255,10 +255,15 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void)
/**
* dmi_check_system - check system DMI data
* @list: array of dmi_system_id structures to match against
+ * All non-null elements of the list must match
+ * their slot's (field index's) data (i.e., each
+ * list string must be a substring of the specified
+ * DMI slot's string data) to be considered a
+ * successful match.
*
* Walk the blacklist table running matching functions until someone
* returns non zero or we hit the end. Callback function is called for
- * each successfull match. Returns the number of matches.
+ * each successful match. Returns the number of matches.
*/
int dmi_check_system(struct dmi_system_id *list)
{
@@ -287,7 +292,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_check_system);
/**
* dmi_get_system_info - return DMI data value
- * @field: data index (see enum dmi_filed)
+ * @field: data index (see enum dmi_field)
*
* Returns one DMI data value, can be used to perform
* complex DMI data checks.
@@ -301,13 +306,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dmi_get_system_info);
/**
* dmi_find_device - find onboard device by type/name
* @type: device type or %DMI_DEV_TYPE_ANY to match all device types
- * @desc: device name string or %NULL to match all
+ * @name: device name string or %NULL to match all
* @from: previous device found in search, or %NULL for new search.
*
* Iterates through the list of known onboard devices. If a device is
* found with a matching @vendor and @device, a pointer to its device
* structure is returned. Otherwise, %NULL is returned.
- * A new search is initiated by passing %NULL to the @from argument.
+ * A new search is initiated by passing %NULL as the @from argument.
* If @from is not %NULL, searches continue from next device.
*/
struct dmi_device * dmi_find_device(int type, const char *name,