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Message-ID: <20160108094303.GA9234@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 01:43:03 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@...gle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stern@...land.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy.
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:49:49PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This is a completely broken usage of the mmap interface. if you use
> > mmap on a device file you must use the actual mmap for the data
> > transfer.
>
> Really? V4L does exactly the same thing, from what I can see. It's just a way
> of allocating memory with specific properties, roughly similar to hugetlbfs.
V4l is generally speaking never an example for good practices.
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