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DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt

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Change the phrase "handed off to the driver" to "handed off to the
device" as in the paragraph below.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Masahiro Yamada 2016-01-04 19:34:14 +09:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ are guaranteed also to be cache line boundaries).
DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification DMA_TO_DEVICE synchronisation must be done after the last modification
of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to of the memory region by the software and before it is handed off to
the driver. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this the device. Once this primitive is used, memory covered by this
primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device primitive should be treated as read-only by the device. If the device
may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see may write to it at any point, it should be DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL (see
below). below).