Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2011-09-28

Re: [PATCH] fix find_next_system_ram comments

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-26 16:58:58
Also in: lkml

On 09/26/2011 06:58 AM, Wizard wrote:
The purpose of find_next_system_ram() is to find a the lowest
memory resource which contain or overlap the [res->start, res->end),
not just contain.

In this patch, I make this comment more exact and fix one typo.

Signed-off-by: Wizard <redacted>
For Signed-off-by: Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:

using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 kernel/resource.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 3b3cedc..2751a8c 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_resource);
 
 #if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_WALK_MEMORY)
 /*
- * Finds the lowest memory reosurce exists within [res->start.res->end)
+ * Finds the lowest memory resource which contains or overlaps
+ * [res->start.res->end)
Your patch description uses ", " (comma) here.  I think that's better than
keeping the ".".
  * the caller must specify res->start, res->end, res->flags and "name".
  * If found, returns 0, res is overwritten, if not found, returns -1.
  */

-- 
~Randy
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