On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 22:25 +0100, Russell King wrote:
Provide a helper to set both the DMA and coherent DMA masks to the same value - this avoids duplicated code in a number of drivers, sometimes with buggy error handling, and also allows us identify which drivers do things differently.
Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk
Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 8 ++++++++ include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 14129f1..5e98303 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
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-dma_set_coherent_mask() will always be able to set the same or a -smaller mask as dma_set_mask(). However for the rare case that a +The coherent coherent mask will always be able to set the same or a +smaller mask as the streaming mask. However for the rare case that a
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The new wording doesn't make sense; a mask doesn't set itself. I would suggest:
"The coherent mask can always be set to the same or a smaller mask than the streaming mask."
Ben.