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Commit 0c766e78 authored by Bart Van Assche's avatar Bart Van Assche Committed by Jens Axboe
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block, documentation: Explain the word 'segments'



Several block layer users who are not kernel developers do not know that
the word 'segment' refers to an element in a DMA scatter/gather list. Make
the block layer documentation easier to understand by stating explicitly
what the word 'segment' stands for.

Reviewed-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 6728ac33
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