linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/5] x86: Better comments for get_bios

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:58:50 -0700
From:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@...gle.com>,
	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Hockin <thockin@...gle.com>,
	San Mehat <san@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] x86: Better comments for get_bios_ebda()

Make the comments a bit clearer for get_bios_ebda so that it actually
tells us what it is returning.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
index 5174cf0..aa6a317 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
 /*
- * there is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the
- * 4K EBDA area at 0x40E.
+ * Returns physical address of EBDA.  Returns 0 if there is no EBDA.
  */
 static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda(void)
 {
+	/*
+	 * There is a real-mode segmented pointer pointing to the
+	 * 4K EBDA area at 0x40E.
+	 */
 	unsigned int address = *(unsigned short *)phys_to_virt(0x40E);
 	address <<= 4;
 	return address;	/* 0 means none */

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