dma-mapping: move the dma_declare_coherent_memory documentation

dma_declare_coherent_memory should not be in a DMA API guide aimed
at driver writers (that is consumers of the API).  Move it to a comment
near the function instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
index 3b3abbbb4b9a..90239348b30f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
@@ -586,30 +586,6 @@ the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag starting at virtual address vaddr and
 continuing on for size.  Again, you *must* observe the cache line
 boundaries when doing this.
 
-::
-
-	int
-	dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr,
-				    dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size);
-
-Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when
-it's asked for coherent memory for this device.
-
-phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently
-assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region).
-
-device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed
-with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the
-dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()).
-
-size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE).
-
-As a simplification for the platforms, only *one* such region of
-memory may be declared per device.
-
-For reasons of efficiency, most platforms choose to track the declared
-region only at the granularity of a page.  For smaller allocations,
-you should use the dma_pool() API.
 
 Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API
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