linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/dma: replace dma_free_coherent with dma_free

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Message-ID: <623167da-baed-49bd-a6b7-932bdb43bd25@web.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:06:20 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Zilin Guan <zilin@....edu.cn>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jianhao Xu <jianhao.xu@....edu.cn>,
 Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/dma: replace dma_free_coherent with dma_free_wc

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> The fix is to use dma_free_wc to match the allocation function.

* See also:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc5#n94

* Would it be helpful to append parentheses to function names?

* How do you think about to add any tags (like “Fixes” and “Cc”) accordingly?


Regards,
Markus