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Commit a64061e1 authored by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo's avatar Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Committed by Jiri Kosina
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doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc 



Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent 9ce8e498

Documentation/pnp.txt

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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ PC standard floppy disk controller 
# cat resources

DISABLED



- Notice the string "DISABLED".  THis means the device is not active.

- Notice the string "DISABLED".  This means the device is not active.



3.) check the device's possible configurations (optional)

# cat options
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Plug and Play but it is planned to be in the near future. 


Requirements for a Linux PnP protocol:

1.) the protocol must use EISA IDs

2.) the protocol must inform the PnP Layer of a devices current configuration

2.) the protocol must inform the PnP Layer of a device's current configuration

- the ability to set resources is optional but preferred.



The following are PnP protocol related functions:
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ pnp_remove_device 
- automatically will free mem used by the device and related structures



pnp_add_id

- adds a EISA ID to the list of supported IDs for the specified device

- adds an EISA ID to the list of supported IDs for the specified device



For more information consult the source of a protocol such as

/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c.
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ For more information consult the source of a protocol such as 


Linux Plug and Play Drivers

---------------------------

	This section contains information for linux PnP driver developers.

	This section contains information for Linux PnP driver developers.



The New Way

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@@ -235,11 +235,10 @@ static int __init serial8250_pnp_init(void) 
The Old Way

...........



a series of compatibility functions have been created to make it easy to convert 



A series of compatibility functions have been created to make it easy to convert

ISAPNP drivers.  They should serve as a temporary solution only.



they are as follows:

They are as follows:



struct pnp_card *pnp_find_card(unsigned short vendor,

				 unsigned short device,