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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index d9aa43d..5aceb88 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -676,8 +676,8 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found:
 	dma-api/all_errors	This file contains a numeric value. If this
 				value is not equal to zero the debugging code
 				will print a warning for every error it finds
-				into the kernel log. Be carefull with this
-				option. It can easily flood your logs.
+				into the kernel log. Be careful with this
+				option, as it can easily flood your logs.
 
 	dma-api/disabled	This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
 				if the debugging code is disabled. This can
@@ -704,12 +704,24 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found:
 				The current number of free dma_debug_entries
 				in the allocator.
 
+	dma-api/driver-filter
+				You can write a name of a driver into this file
+				to limit the debug output to requests from that
+				particular driver. Write an empty string to
+				that file to disable the filter and see
+				all errors again.
+
 If you have this code compiled into your kernel it will be enabled by default.
 If you want to boot without the bookkeeping anyway you can provide
 'dma_debug=off' as a boot parameter. This will disable DMA-API debugging.
 Notice that you can not enable it again at runtime. You have to reboot to do
 so.
 
+If you want to see debug messages only for a special device driver you can
+specify the dma_debug_driver=<drivername> parameter. This will enable the
+driver filter at boot time. The debug code will only print errors for that
+driver afterwards. This filter can be disabled or changed later using debugfs.
+
 When the code disables itself at runtime this is most likely because it ran
 out of dma_debug_entries. These entries are preallocated at boot. The number
 of preallocated entries is defined per architecture. If it is too low for you