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

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

[Masahiro Yamada]

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>
---

 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

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

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Mon,  4 Jan 2016 19:34:14 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:

> Change the phrase "handed off to the driver" to "handed off to the
> device" as in the paragraph below.

Makes sense to me; applied to the docs tree.

Thanks,

jon