From e57924d4ae80f8e076d3597c1f1f23d624c555af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:21:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] drm/doc: Task to rename CMA helpers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm kinda fed up explaining why the have a confusing name :-) v2: Fix typo that Eric Engestrom spotted. Cc: Noralf Trønnes Cc: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190129132153.28844-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch --- Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) 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 ================= -- 2.30.2