The patch titled Subject: Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: minor grammar corrections has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is documentation-dma-api-howtotxt-minor-grammar-corrections.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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@xxxxxx> Subject: Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: minor grammar corrections Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt~documentation-dma-api-howtotxt-minor-grammar-corrections Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt~documentation-dma-api-howtotxt-minor-grammar-corrections +++ a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -488,9 +488,10 @@ will invoke the generic mapping error ch that the mapping code will work correctly on all dma implementations without any dependency on the specifics of the underlying implementation. Using the returned address without checking for errors could result in failures ranging -from panics to silent data corruption. Couple of example of incorrect ways to -check for errors that make assumptions about the underlying dma implementation -are as follows and these are applicable to dma_map_page() as well. +from panics to silent data corruption. A couple of examples of incorrect ways +to check for errors that make assumptions about the underlying dma +implementation are as follows and these are applicable to dma_map_page() as +well. Incorrect example 1: dma_addr_t dma_handle; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shuah.khan@xxxxxx are linux-next.patch documentation-dma-api-howtotxt-minor-grammar-corrections.patch dma-debug-new-interfaces-to-debug-dma-mapping-errors-fix-fix.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