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