[media] vb2: remove TODO comment for dma-buf in QBUF
There is a TODO comment about the dma-buf being mapped in VIDIOC_QBUF instead of doing it closer to when the actual DMA is going to happen when the buffers are queued in the driver (i.e: __enqueue_in_driver). But there is a reason to do it earlier in QBUF, and is that userspace has no way to know if a exported dma-buf can be imported successfully and so relies on QBUF succeeding as indication that the dma-buf mapped. If QBUF fails, the application can fallback to another streaming I/O method. But moving the dma-buf mapping later when queueing the buffers can be too late for userspace to recover, since it may had dropped the buffer(s) already when it knows that the dma-buf mapping failed. So remove the TODO instead and change the comment to explain this. Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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