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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