From 105ef9a0af1469a9dd906839dd4628aa9c013f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:57:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [ARM] 3942/1: ARM: comment: consistent_sync should not be
called directly
/*
* Note: Drivers should NOT use this function directly, as it will break
* platforms with CONFIG_DMABOUNCE.
* Use the driver DMA support - see dma-mapping.h (dma_sync_*)
*/
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/mm/consistent.c | 3 +++
include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c b/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
index 50e6b6bfb2e2..b797217e82be 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
@@ -476,6 +476,9 @@ core_initcall(consistent_init);
/*
* Make an area consistent for devices.
+ * Note: Drivers should NOT use this function directly, as it will break
+ * platforms with CONFIG_DMABOUNCE.
+ * Use the driver DMA support - see dma-mapping.h (dma_sync_*)
*/
void consistent_sync(void *vaddr, size_t size, int direction)
{
diff --git a/include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h b/include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h
index 55eb4dc3253d..666617711c81 100644
--- a/include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
* uncached, unwrite-buffered mapped memory space for use with DMA
* devices. This is the "generic" version. The PCI specific version
* is in pci.h
+ *
+ * Note: Drivers should NOT use this function directly, as it will break
+ * platforms with CONFIG_DMABOUNCE.
+ * Use the driver DMA support - see dma-mapping.h (dma_sync_*)
*/
extern void consistent_sync(void *kaddr, size_t size, int rw);
--
2.34.1