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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 55b70b903ead..d69b3fc64e14 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -681,6 +681,11 @@ or: as appropriate. +PLEASE NOTE: The 'nents' argument to dma_sync_sg_for_cpu() and + dma_sync_sg_for_device() must be the same passed to + dma_map_sg(). It is _NOT_ the count returned by + dma_map_sg(). + After the last DMA transfer call one of the DMA unmap routines dma_unmap_{single,sg}(). If you don't touch the data from the first dma_map_*() call till dma_unmap_*(), then you don't have to call the |