Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] update DMA API documentation
From: Marek Szyprowski
Date: Fri Jun 27 2025 - 13:06:02 EST
On 27.06.2025 12:10, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> A few documentation updates:
>
> * remove outdated and confusing parts
> * reduce duplicates
> * update streaming DMA API expectations
Thanks for this cleanup and documentation clarification! Feel free to
add for the whole patchset:
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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(-)
>
Best regards
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Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland