linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] frv: remove the obsolete and unnecessary DMA API comments

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:03:42 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] frv: remove the obsolete and unnecessary DMA API comments


FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> pci_dma_sync_single was obsoleted long ago.
> 
> All the comments are generic, not architecture specific, simply
> describes some of the DMA-API (and frv has the same comments in three
> files). Documentation/DMA-API.txt have more detailed descriptions.
> 
> This removes the above obsolete and unnecessary DMA API
> comments. Let's describe the DMA API in only
> Documentation/DMA-API.txt.

I'm okay with this, _provided_ you put a pointer in a banner comment at the
top of the file to Documentation/DMA-API.txt.

David
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