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Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: minor grammar corrections
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Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shuah Khan authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 28, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -488,9 +488,10 @@ will invoke the generic mapping error check interface. Doing so will ensure
that the mapping code will work correctly on all dma implementations without
any dependency on the specifics of the underlying implementation. Using the
returned address without checking for errors could result in failures ranging
from panics to silent data corruption. Couple of example of incorrect ways to
check for errors that make assumptions about the underlying dma implementation
are as follows and these are applicable to dma_map_page() as well.
from panics to silent data corruption. A couple of examples of incorrect ways
to check for errors that make assumptions about the underlying dma
implementation are as follows and these are applicable to dma_map_page() as
well.

Incorrect example 1:
dma_addr_t dma_handle;
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