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| Started by | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> |
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| First post | 2016-01-04 11:40 +0100 |
| Last post | 2016-01-12 02:30 +0100 |
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[PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-01-04 11:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-01-12 02:30 +0100
| From | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> |
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| Date | 2016-01-04 11:40 +0100 |
| Subject | [PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt |
| Message-ID | <qNaIr-2dC-39@gated-at.bofh.it> |
Change the phrase "handed off to the driver" to "handed off to the device" as in the paragraph below. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> --- Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 1e98a7e..45ef3f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries). DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to -the driver. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this +the device. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see below). -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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| From | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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| Date | 2016-01-12 02:30 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt |
| Message-ID | <qPVWz-2fD-29@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #1300623 |
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 19:34:14 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote: > Change the phrase "handed off to the driver" to "handed off to the > device" as in the paragraph below. Makes sense to me; applied to the docs tree. Thanks, jon
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