Hi Daniel, On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > I'm kinda fed up explaining why the have a confusing name :-)
Fully agreed, it's confusing and should definitely be fixed. Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> > Cc: Noralf Trønnes <nor...@tronnes.org> > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@intel.com> > --- > 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 > ================= > -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
