[PATCH v2 0/8] update DMA API documentation
From: Petr Tesarik
Date: Fri Jun 27 2025 - 06:12:37 EST
A few documentation updates:
* remove outdated and confusing parts
* reduce duplicates
* update streaming DMA API expectations
Changes from v1:
* move DMA Pools to dma-api.rst
* improve streaming DMA addressing constraints
Petr Tesarik (8):
docs: dma-api: use "DMA API" consistently throughout the document
docs: dma-api: replace consistent with coherent
docs: dma-api: remove remnants of PCI DMA API
docs: dma-api: add a kernel-doc comment for dma_pool_zalloc()
docs: dma-api: remove duplicate description of the DMA pool API
docs: dma-api: clarify DMA addressing limitations
docs: dma-api: update streaming DMA physical address constraints
docs: dma-api: clean up documentation of dma_map_sg()
Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst | 36 ++---
Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst | 191 ++++++++---------------
Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 6 -
include/linux/dmapool.h | 8 +
mm/dmapool.c | 6 +-
5 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
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