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| author | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2016-01-04 19:34:14 +0900 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-01-11 18:29:00 -0700 |
| commit | 000afe892ed6ff127745e7ab4fba4bc52248d6f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a475bdfc1a04cbe4eea2fdace6fd3556f880d89 /Documentation/DMA-API.txt | |
| parent | feb4d8887ed9b4d7997247a6f17759234564d553 (diff) | |
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DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt
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>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DMA-API.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 1e98a7e6bccc..45ef3f279c3b 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). |
