Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:14:23 -0500


> > (since it's video-capture, mlock() should not be much of an issue,
> > the card is a controlled resource anyway. If in the future we will
> > have video

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> His torvaldsness rejected a patch that made mlock callable from inside
> drivers to do this sort of stuff. So thats not a possibility.

You can't get userspace to initiate the mlock for you?

-- 
Raul

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