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[PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt

Started byMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
First post2016-01-04 11:40 +0100
Last post2016-01-12 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

#1300623 — [PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt

FromMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date2016-01-04 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

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#1306897 — Re: [PATCH] DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt

FromJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Date2016-01-12 02:30 +0100
SubjectRe: [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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