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

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>
Masahiro Yamada 9 years ago
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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).