diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/s390/cds.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/cds.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt index 32a96cc3921..05a2b4f7e38 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The following chapters describe the I/O related interface routines the Linux/390 common device support (CDS) provides to allow for device specific driver implementations on the IBM ESA/390 hardware platform. Those interfaces intend to provide the functionality required by every device driver -implementaion to allow to drive a specific hardware device on the ESA/390 +implementation to allow to drive a specific hardware device on the ESA/390 platform. Some of the interface routines are specific to Linux/390 and some of them can be found on other Linux platforms implementations too. Miscellaneous function prototypes, data declarations, and macro definitions @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ the ESA/390 architecture has implemented a so called channel subsystem, that provides a unified view of the devices physically attached to the systems. Though the ESA/390 hardware platform knows about a huge variety of different peripheral attachments like disk devices (aka. DASDs), tapes, communication -controllers, etc. they can all by accessed by a well defined access method and +controllers, etc. they can all be accessed by a well defined access method and they are presenting I/O completion a unified way : I/O interruptions. Every single device is uniquely identified to the system by a so called subchannel, where the ESA/390 architecture allows for 64k devices be attached. @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ DOIO_REPORT_ALL - report all interrupt conditions The ccw_device_start() function returns : 0 - successful completion or request successfully initiated --EBUSY - The device is currently processing a previous I/O request, or ther is +-EBUSY - The device is currently processing a previous I/O request, or there is a status pending at the device. -ENODEV - cdev is invalid, the device is not operational or the ccw_device is not online. @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ first: -EIO: the common I/O layer terminated the request due to an error state If the concurrent sense flag in the extended status word in the irb is set, the -field irb->scsw.count describes the numer of device specific sense bytes +field irb->scsw.count describes the number of device specific sense bytes available in the extended control word irb->scsw.ecw[0]. No device sensing by the device driver itself is required. @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ ccw_device_start() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. The device driver is allowed to issue the next ccw_device_start() call from within its interrupt handler already. It is not required to schedule a -bottom-half, unless an non deterministically long running error recovery procedure +bottom-half, unless a non deterministically long running error recovery procedure or similar needs to be scheduled. During I/O processing the Linux/390 generic I/O device driver support has already obtained the IRQ lock, i.e. the handler must not try to obtain it again when calling ccw_device_start() or we end in a @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ information prior to device-end the device driver urgently relies on. In this case all I/O interruptions are presented to the device driver until final status is recognized. -If a device is able to recover from asynchronosly presented I/O errors, it can +If a device is able to recover from asynchronously presented I/O errors, it can perform overlapping I/O using the DOIO_EARLY_NOTIFICATION flag. While some devices always report channel-end and device-end together, with a single interrupt, others present primary status (channel-end) when the channel is |