drm/doc: Task to rename CMA helpers

danvet · danvet · commit e57924d4ae80 · 2019-01-30T18:02:10.000+01:00
I'm kinda fed up explaining why the have a confusing name :-) v2: Fix typo that Eric Engestrom spotted. Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190129132153.28844-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
diff --git 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 maybe 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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