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Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt

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Fixed spelling issue.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ requirements you pass the flag GFP_DMA to kmalloc.
Unfortunately the memory available for ISA DMA is scarce so unless you
allocate the memory during boot-up it's a good idea to also pass
__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocater try a bit harder.
__GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOWARN to make the allocator try a bit harder.
(This scarcity also means that you should allocate the buffer as
early as possible and not release it until the driver is unloaded.)