On Monday 23 July 2012, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
I would like to completely remove dma_cache_sync() and replace it with dma_sync_single_for_cpu/device(), but this probably require a bit more discussion and fixing all current clients of dma_cache_sync().
Sounds like a good idea. Fortunately, there are only a handful of such drivers in the kernel, and even fewer machines that actually need this, so we should be able to find all the people that care about these.
Arnd