Commit 76deefa3 authored by Martyn Welch's avatar Martyn Welch Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

vme: Update documentation to match api

The vme_register_driver() api changed in commit 5d6abf37 ("staging:
vme: make match() driver specific to improve non-VME64x support") but the
documentation wasn't updated. Update the documentation to match the API.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartyn Welch <martyn@welchs.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent fa54b326
......@@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ As with other subsystems within the Linux kernel, VME device drivers register
with the VME subsystem, typically called from the devices init routine. This is
achieved via a call to the following function:
int vme_register_driver (struct vme_driver *driver);
int vme_register_driver (struct vme_driver *driver, unsigned int ndevs);
If driver registration is successful this function returns zero, if an error
occurred a negative error code will be returned.
A pointer to a structure of type 'vme_driver' must be provided to the
registration function. The structure is as follows:
registration function. Along with ndevs, which is the number of devices your
driver is able to support. The structure is as follows:
struct vme_driver {
struct list_head node;
......@@ -32,8 +33,8 @@ At the minimum, the '.name', '.match' and '.probe' elements of this structure
should be correctly set. The '.name' element is a pointer to a string holding
the device driver's name.
The '.match' function allows controlling the number of devices that need to
be registered. The match function should return 1 if a device should be
The '.match' function allows control over which VME devices should be registered
with the driver. The match function should return 1 if a device should be
probed and 0 otherwise. This example match function (from vme_user.c) limits
the number of devices probed to one:
......
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