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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100 |
commit | a02efb906d12c9d4eb2ab7c59049ba9545e5412d (patch) | |
tree | bf1f6467978ec63a22f42299ecac2ee7f7e73336 /include/linux/firewire-cdev.h | |
parent | 84dfcb4b318463cd4883b6a19937824f49aee564 (diff) | |
parent | 2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (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.h | 9 |
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; |