The patch titled DMA-API.txt: remove dma_sync_single_range description has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is dma-apitxt-remove-dma_sync_single_range-description.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: DMA-API.txt: remove dma_sync_single_range description From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> dma_sync_single_for_cpu/for_device supports a partial sync so there is no point to have dma_sync_single_range (also dma_sync_single was obsoleted long ago, replaced with dma_sync_single_for_cpu/for_device). There is no user of dma_sync_single_range() in mainline and only Alpha architecture supports dma_sync_single_range(). So it's unlikely that someone out of the tree uses it. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/DMA-API.txt~dma-apitxt-remove-dma_sync_single_range-description Documentation/DMA-API.txt --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt~dma-apitxt-remove-dma_sync_single_range-description +++ a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -528,16 +528,6 @@ into the width returned by this call. I of two for easy alignment. void -dma_sync_single_range(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, - unsigned long offset, size_t size, - enum dma_data_direction direction) - -Does a partial sync, starting at offset and continuing for size. You -must be careful to observe the cache alignment and width when doing -anything like this. You must also be extra careful about accessing -memory you intend to sync partially. - -void dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction direction) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch x86-agp-fix-agp_amd64_init-module-initialization-regression.patch scsi-add-__init-__exit-macros-to-ibmvstgtc.patch frv-remove-pci_dma_sync_single-and-pci_dma_sync_sg.patch documentation-dma-apitxt-remove-deprecated-function-descriptions.patch dma-apitxt-add-dma_sync_single-sg-api-description.patch dma-apitxt-remove-dma_sync_single_range-description.patch alpha-remove-dma_sync_single_range.patch um-remove-dma_sync_single_range.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html