I found the description of the table_size argument to the function
acpi_parse_entries_array() unclear and ambiguous. This is a minor
documentation change to improve that description so I don't misuse
the argument again in the future, and it is hopefully clearer to
other future users.
Signed-off-by: Al Stone <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Len Brown <l...@kernel.org>
---
drivers/acpi/tables.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
index 6c5ee7e66842..b6ac8162a2c0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ void acpi_table_print_madt_entry(struct
acpi_subtable_header *header)
* acpi_parse_entries_array - for each proc_num find a suitable subtable
*
* @id: table id (for debugging purposes)
- * @table_size: single entry size
+ * @table_size: size of the root table; i.e., the offset from the very
+ * first byte of the complete ACPI table, to the first byte
+ * of the first subtable
* @table_header: where does the table start?
* @proc: array of acpi_subtable_proc struct containing entry id
* and associated handler with it
@@ -400,7 +402,7 @@ int __init acpi_table_parse(char *id,
acpi_tbl_table_handler handler)
return -ENODEV;
}
-/*
+/*
* The BIOS is supposed to supply a single APIC/MADT,
* but some report two. Provide a knob to use either.
* (don't you wish instance 0 and 1 were not the same?)
--
2.14.3
