On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> > For that matter, wouldn't it be useful to support exporting a userptr 
>> > buffer
>> > at some point in the future?
>>
>> Shouldn't USERPTR usage be discouraged once we get dma-buf support ?
>
> Why? It's perfectly fine to use it and it's not going away.
>
> I'm not saying that we should support exporting a userptr buffer as a dmabuf 
> fd,
> but I'm just wondering if that is possible at all and how difficult it would 
> be.

it seems not terribly safe, since you don't really have much control
over where the memory comes from w/ userptr.  I'm more in favor of
discouraging usage of userptr

BR,
-R
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