From: Adrian Bunk Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:15:42 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove documentation X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~37372 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f993b3bf80b23d329951fe0fc5ba3647d5d912e9;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git [PATCH] remove ISA legacy functions: remove documentation This patch removes the documentation of the ISA legacy functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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) - - ISA legacy functions - - 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 isa_readb, - isa_writeb, isa_readw, - isa_writew, isa_readl, - isa_writel, isa_memcpy_fromio - and isa_memcpy_toio - - - These functions should not be used in new drivers, and will - eventually be going away. - - -