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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst index 7c2f2032d30a..6b154dbb02cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst +++ b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst @@ -3520,14 +3520,14 @@ allocator will try to get an area as large as possible within the given size. The second argument (type) and the third argument (device pointer) are -dependent on the bus. In the case of the ISA bus, pass -:c:func:`snd_dma_isa_data()` as the third argument with +dependent on the bus. For normal devices, pass the device pointer +(typically identical as ``card->dev``) to the third argument with ``SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV`` type. For the continuous buffer unrelated to the bus can be pre-allocated with ``SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_CONTINUOUS`` type and the ``snd_dma_continuous_data(GFP_KERNEL)`` device pointer, where -``GFP_KERNEL`` is the kernel allocation flag to use. For the PCI -scatter-gather buffers, use ``SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG`` with -``snd_dma_pci_data(pci)`` (see the `Non-Contiguous Buffers`_ +``GFP_KERNEL`` is the kernel allocation flag to use. For the +scatter-gather buffers, use ``SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG`` with the device +pointer (see the `Non-Contiguous Buffers`_ section). Once the buffer is pre-allocated, you can use the allocator in the |