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@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ may need to abort DMA operations and revert to PIO for the transfer, in
which case a virtual mapping of the page is required. For SCSI it is also
done in some scenarios where the low level driver cannot be trusted to
handle a single sg entry correctly. The driver is expected to perform the
-kmaps as needed on such occasions using the __bio_kmap_atomic and bio_kmap_irq
+kmaps as needed on such occasions using the bio_kmap_irq and friends
routines as appropriate. A driver could also use the blk_queue_bounce()
routine on its own to bounce highmem i/o to low memory for specific requests
if so desired.
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ use dma_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
PIO drivers (or drivers that need to revert to PIO transfer once in a
while (IDE for example)), where the CPU is doing the actual data
transfer a virtual mapping is needed. If the driver supports highmem I/O,
-(Sec 1.1, (ii) ) it needs to use __bio_kmap_atomic and bio_kmap_irq to
+(Sec 1.1, (ii) ) it needs to use __bio_kmap_atomic or similar to
temporarily map a bio into the virtual address space.