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> > It looks drivers/media/video/video-buf.c uses alloc_kiovec() and
> > map_user_kiobuf() to do it.
>  
>  For video-buf.c and for Imran's application, that's just a wrapper
>  which is used to get at get_user_pages().

My latest video-buf.c version already uses get_user_pages() directly.
Get the latest bttv bits from http://bytesex.org/snapshot/ if you want
to have a look at the code.  Will go into 2.5 with the next batch of
video4linux updates.

  Gerd

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