[PATCH] drm/doc: Task to rename CMA helpers

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Tue Jan 29 13:21:53 UTC 2019


I'm kinda fed up explaining why the have a confusing name :-)

Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at 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
 =================
 
-- 
2.20.1



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