From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated videobuf documentation
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:21:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B82F542.2030206@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100222134746.1ce5cecf@bike.lwn.net>
On 02/22/10 12:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:09:19 -0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> Not anymore: there's a patch that added USERPTR support for videobuf-dma-contig:
>>
>> commit 720b17e759a50635c429ccaa2ec3d01edb4f92d6
>> Author: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
>> Date: Tue Jun 16 15:32:36 2009 -0700
>>
>> videobuf-dma-contig: zero copy USERPTR support
>
> Now *that* is a special-purpose hack. But it's worth mentioning, so
> I've updated the text accordingly.
>
>> In terms of memory types, there's a possibility that weren't mentioned: the OVERLAY mode.
>>
>> Maybe a small paragraph may be added just for the completeness of the doc.
>
> Yeah, I try to ignore overlay whenever I can. I've added a brief bit.
>
> New version of the patch attached; look better?
Looks good to me (other than a few straggling lines that end with whitespace).
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-22 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 17:12 [PATCH] Updated videobuf documentation Jonathan Corbet
2010-02-18 22:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-02-19 6:09 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-02-22 20:47 ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-02-22 21:21 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-02-22 21:52 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-02-22 20:38 ` Jonathan Corbet
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