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Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man9



On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:16:58AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
>>>> +The functions were originally introduced to handle
>>>> +.Tn PCI
>>>> +bus master devices, which assumed little endian byte order in
>>>> +.Tn DMA
>>>> +transfers, even on big endian systems.
>>
>> There are a few PCI bus master devices that are big endian aware
>> (epic(4) for example), so I don't think it's appropriate to add
>> commas around the which clause.
>
> I agree that the first comma should go, but the second one (before  
> "even") should remain.

No it shouldn't. Anyway, I just rearranged it to hopefully avoid such
problems entirely.

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David A. Holland
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