Dale Whitfield (dale@elad.cix.co.uk)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 17:37:39 +0000
>If you're dealing with 256k of data the overhead of set_fs() is negligible. I
>agree it's not ideal that you have to do this but the alternative would be to
>force any driver that *does* want to supply data from user space (eg, lp) to
>bounce it through a kernel buffer.
Agree the overhead on a large buffer is negligible. 256k is not a frequent
occurrence but sending numerous small amounts of data to the camera are.
>It might possibly be worth investigating the idea of providing "fast path"
>IEEE1284 functions for at least the common cases.
I thought of special-casing calls which only involve one byte of data. Problem
is you can justify a fastpath function for most of the 8 variations of ecp-mode
read/write calls alone.
Dale.
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