.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "IDE_DMA_SETUP" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME ide_dma_setup \- begin a DMA phase .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int ide_dma_setup (ide_drive_t * \fIdrive\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIdrive\fB\fR target device .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Build an IDE DMA PRD (IDE speak for scatter gather table) and then set up the DMA transfer registers for a device that follows generic IDE PCI DMA behaviour. Controllers can override this function if they need to .PP Returns 0 on success. If a PIO fallback is required then 1 is returned.