From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:34:14 +0000 (+0900) Subject: DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=000afe892ed6ff127745e7ab4fba4bc52248d6f4;p=linux-beck.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- 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).