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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2019-01-29 14:21:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2019-01-30 18:02:10 +0100 |
| commit | e57924d4ae80f8e076d3597c1f1f23d624c555af (patch) | |
| tree | 6c7dfe204f164976e59615d9c91cd8ab880aec2e /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | 77086014c815c7a91728142a8bf06e84c9185ffb (diff) | |
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drm/doc: Task to rename CMA helpers
I'm kinda fed up explaining why the have a confusing name :-)
v2: Fix typo that Eric Engestrom spotted.
Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190129132153.28844-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 38360ede1221..a1d91ca7f65c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -262,6 +262,16 @@ As a reference, take a look at the conversions already completed in drm core. Contact: Sean Paul, respective driver maintainers +Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers +--------------------------------- + +CMA (standing for contiguous memory allocator) is really a bit an accident of +what these were used for first, a much better name would be DMA helpers. In the +text these should even be called coherent DMA memory helpers (so maybe CDM, but +no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent. + +Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter + Core refactorings ================= |