linux-stable.git/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst, branch linux-5.2.y Linux kernel stable tree Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb() 2019-04-08T11:00:45+00:00 Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com 2019-02-22T16:17:54+00:00 915530396c788d75c40f200edd67b56ac363c728 The guarantees provided by mmiowb() are now provided implicitly by spin_unlock(), so remove all references to this most confusing of barriers from our Documentation. Good riddance. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 
The guarantees provided by mmiowb() are now provided implicitly by
spin_unlock(), so remove all references to this most confusing of
barriers from our Documentation.

Good riddance.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
docs: Convert the deviceio template to RST 2017-02-01T00:31:21+00:00 Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net 2017-01-27T22:43:01+00:00 8a8a602fdb834ffce9cf3e9f6021a86cdada78f0 Convert deviceiobook.tmpl to RST and incorporate it into the driver API manual. Like the rest of our documentation, this one could use some work. There's no mention of ioremap() and friends, no mention of io_read*() and friends. But we have nice documentation for all those folks writing new drivers that do port I/O :). The :c:func: notation has been left off of all the read*/write* functions. There's no kerneldoc comments for them anyway, so those links will never be live, and writing a bunch of repetitive "read a byte from I/O memory" comments lacks appeal. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Convert deviceiobook.tmpl to RST and incorporate it into the driver API
manual.

Like the rest of our documentation, this one could use some work.  There's
no mention of ioremap() and friends, no mention of io_read*() and friends.
But we have nice documentation for all those folks writing new drivers that
do port I/O :).

The :c:func: notation has been left off of all the read*/write* functions.
There's no kerneldoc comments for them anyway, so those links will never be
live, and writing a bunch of repetitive "read a byte from I/O memory"
comments lacks appeal.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>