On Tue, 4 May 2010, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man9: byteorder.9
Log Message:
Reference bswap(3). Improvements in the HISTORY section.
:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9
-These functions were introduced to handle PCI bus master devices which assumed
-host's memory used to pass integer parameters via DMA transfer was
-always little endian even on big endian systems.
:
+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.
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