Den 29.01.2019 14.21, skrev Daniel Vetter:
> I'm kinda fed up explaining why the have a confusing name :-)
> 
> Cc: Noralf Trønnes <nor...@tronnes.org>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com>
> ---

I agree that it's confusing,

Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes <nor...@tronnes.org>

I would also make sense to fold drm_fb_cma_helper into the cma gem
helper since there's only 2 functions left after my refactorings.

Noralf.

>  Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> index 38360ede1221..17f1cde6adab 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst
> @@ -262,6 +262,16 @@ As a reference, take a look at the conversions already 
> completed in drm core.
>  
>  Contact: Sean Paul, respective driver maintainers
>  
> +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 maybd CDM, 
> but
> +no one knows what that means) since underneath they just use 
> dma_alloc_coherent.
> +
> +Contact: Laurent Pinchart, Daniel Vetter
> +
>  Core refactorings
>  =================
>  
> 
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