>  Are the v4l capture buffers filled as part of an interrupt handler? Or
>  more generally how are interrupts handled in v4l?

Depends on the driver.  Some don't touch the buffer at all because the
data is filled by the hardware using DMA ...

>  Reading a file from
>  inside a driver (while normally dumb? needs happen within a process
>  context and so I'd need to figure that out...)

soundcore.o has some code to do that (to load firmware files).  It's a
dirty hack througth ...

  Gerd

-- 
#define ENOCLUE 125 /* userland programmer induced race condition */



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