Re: malloc()? vmalloc()? kmalloc()?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:24:56 +0100 (BST)

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> specific) and it would need a quite large frame buffer because after a
> snapshot it should have the whole image at random access, if I read the
> code for video4linux correctly...

If you support mmap(). You don't have to. If you support only read() then
you may well copy the data off card to user space - for a DMA driven card
mmap() is a very good idea

Alan

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