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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2008-02-05 16:50:35 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-02-05 16:50:53 +0100
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[S390] cio: Update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
index 3d2f31b..4acc732 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that
- drive s390 based channel attached devices. This includes interfaces for
+ drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces for
interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with the
common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common I/O
layer.
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@
The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to
a s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic
command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains
- so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via subchannels,
- visible on the css bus. A device driver, however, will never interact
- with the subchannel directly, but only via the device on the ccw bus,
+ so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O
+ subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for
+ channel-attached devices, however, will never interact with the
+ subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus,
the ccw device.
</para>
<sect1 id="channelIO">
@@ -116,7 +117,6 @@
!Iinclude/asm-s390/ccwdev.h
!Edrivers/s390/cio/device.c
!Edrivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c
-!Edrivers/s390/cio/airq.c
</sect1>
<sect1 id="cmf">
<title>The channel-measurement facility</title>
@@ -147,4 +147,15 @@
</sect1>
</chapter>
+ <chapter id="genericinterfaces">
+ <title>Generic interfaces</title>
+ <para>
+ Some interfaces are available to other drivers that do not necessarily
+ have anything to do with the busses described above, but still are
+ indirectly using basic infrastructure in the common I/O layer.
+ One example is the support for adapter interrupts.
+ </para>
+!Edrivers/s390/cio/airq.c
+ </chapter>
+
</book>
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