linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/todo: remove task to rename CMA helpers

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 13:46:48 +0300
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>
Cc:     daniel@...ll.ch, airlied@...ux.ie, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/todo: remove task to rename CMA helpers

Hi Danilo,

Thank you for the patch.

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 11:26:13PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Both, GEM and FB, CMA helpers were renamed to "GEM DMA" and "FB DMA",
> hence the task can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> index 10bfb50908d1..fd5b3f2fb19e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> @@ -343,19 +343,6 @@ converted, except for struct drm_driver.gem_prime_mmap.
>  
>  Level: Intermediate
>  
> -Rename CMA helpers to DMA helpers
> ----------------------------------
> -
> -CMA (standing for contiguous memory allocator) is really a bit an accident of
> -what these were used for first, a much better name would be DMA helpers. In the
> -text these should even be called coherent DMA memory helpers (so maybe CDM, but
> -no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use dma_alloc_coherent.
> -
> -Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter
> -
> -Level: Intermediate (mostly because it is a huge tasks without good partial
> -milestones, not technically itself that challenging)
> -
>  connector register/unregister fixes
>  -----------------------------------
>  

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart