On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Hans Verkuil wrote:

>Isn't the problem simply that the YUV decoder buffers cannot be
>allocated?  Memory allocation failures are not handled very well in the
>driver and if you continue regardless I'm not surprised all sorts of
>strange errors crop up.

Sounds plausible. Do we really carry on regardless after a kmalloc
failure (other than to print a warning)?

I heartily endorse your suggestion of changing the dynbuf default, as
long as the default allocations are sensible.


Cheers,
Phil


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