linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] update DMA API documentation

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Message-ID: <6de6c314-15a3-40df-ab67-95af7d4378c6@samsung.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:03:34 +0200
From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Keith Busch
	<kbusch@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Bagas Sanjaya
	<bagasdotme@...il.com>, "open list:DOCUMENTATION"
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "open
 list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] update DMA API documentation

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 * remove outdated and confusing parts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@...sung.com>


> 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
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland