bktr(4) risk?

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:26:50PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Jonathan Chen wrote this message on Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 17:37 -0400:
> > The only reason I can think of to use this ioctl would be if you wanted the 
> > image you're capturing to be directly dumped into video memory.  This 
> 
> This is very common...  It allows the bktr driver to dump the frames
> directly to the memory of your video card...  This makes watching live
> tv watchable...

Yes, how stupid of me to not think of people wanting to just watch a live 
feed from their capture card...

> > doesn't seem too useful a task for a video capture card to be doing.  
> > Perhaps we should put a test for write access in there or just eliminate 
> > the ioctl altogether.  It should be noted that the meteor driver had this 
> > ioctl ifdef'ed out prior to its removal.
> 
> Hmmm... I think I'll go ahead and put in a compatibility ioctl based
> on the way I did the zoran driver, and schedule the removal of the
> ioctl..

Zoran driver?  Can I have a pointer or a summary of what you did there so I 
can do the same to meteor(4)?

-Jon