linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix duplicated word

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Message-ID: <CAErSpo6uU4E-WLXBPp79q8fsu-YMytAaVGyEBOD7-1iZcJDgwQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2014 07:14:46 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix duplicated word

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar> wrote:
> "coherent" is written twice when it should be just once
>
> Signed-off-by: Emilio López <emilio@...pez.com.ar>
> ---
>
> The sentence still doesn't sound entirely correct in my head, maybe
> someone can propose a better rewording.

I added this patch to my series.  I agree the wording is awkward, but
I don't have a better proposal right now.

>  Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
> index 5e98303..4ede25a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
> @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ the case would look like this:
>                 goto ignore_this_device;
>         }
>
> -The coherent coherent mask will always be able to set the same or a
> +The coherent mask will always be able to set the same or a
>  smaller mask as the streaming mask. However for the rare case that a
>  device driver only uses consistent allocations, one would have to
>  check the return value from dma_set_coherent_mask().
> --
> 1.9.2
>
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