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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
commita02efb906d12c9d4eb2ab7c59049ba9545e5412d (patch)
treebf1f6467978ec63a22f42299ecac2ee7f7e73336 /include/linux/firewire-cdev.h
parent84dfcb4b318463cd4883b6a19937824f49aee564 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge commit 'origin' into master
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/firewire-cdev.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/firewire-cdev.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/firewire-cdev.h b/include/linux/firewire-cdev.h
index 0f0e271f97fa..4d078e99c017 100644
--- a/include/linux/firewire-cdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/firewire-cdev.h
@@ -154,8 +154,13 @@ struct fw_cdev_event_iso_interrupt {
* @request: Valid if @common.type == %FW_CDEV_EVENT_REQUEST
* @iso_interrupt: Valid if @common.type == %FW_CDEV_EVENT_ISO_INTERRUPT
*
- * Convenience union for userspace use. Events could be read(2) into a char
- * buffer and then cast to this union for further processing.
+ * Convenience union for userspace use. Events could be read(2) into an
+ * appropriately aligned char buffer and then cast to this union for further
+ * processing. Note that for a request, response or iso_interrupt event,
+ * the data[] or header[] may make the size of the full event larger than
+ * sizeof(union fw_cdev_event). Also note that if you attempt to read(2)
+ * an event into a buffer that is not large enough for it, the data that does
+ * not fit will be discarded so that the next read(2) will return a new event.
*/
union fw_cdev_event {
struct fw_cdev_event_common common;