Hi Sakari,

On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 00:27 +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
[...]
> This lets the user to allocate lots of mmap'ed buffers that are pinned in
> physical memory.

This is already possible without this patch, by closing the fd instead
of calling reqbufs(0).

> Considering that we don't really have a proper mechanism
> to limit that anyway,
> 
> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@linux.intel.com>
>
> That said, the patch must be accompanied by the documentation change in
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst .

Oh right, thanks. I'll add V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_ORPHANED_BUFS to
_v4l2-buf-capabilities in v2.

regards
Philipp

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