Documentation: update scatterlist struct description in DMA-API-HOWTO

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index a38ddadd208e3d3ecf850cfb9760083a25c68450..c3ab456422f31a46f04bb4512fd899533a9000ef 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -703,19 +703,10 @@ to "Closing".
 
 1) Struct scatterlist requirements.
 
-   Struct scatterlist must contain, at a minimum, the following
-   members:
-
-       struct page *page;
-       unsigned int offset;
-       unsigned int length;
-
-   The base address is specified by a "page+offset" pair.
-
-   Previous versions of struct scatterlist contained a "void *address"
-   field that was sometimes used instead of page+offset.  As of Linux
-   2.5., page+offset is always used, and the "address" field has been
-   deleted.
+   Don't invent the architecture specific struct scatterlist; just use
+   <asm-generic/scatterlist.h>. You need to enable
+   CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs
+   (including software IOMMU).
 
 2) More to come...