[media] em28xx: move caching of pointer to vmalloc memory in videobuf to struct em28xx_buffer
In the current code em28xx_urb_data_copy() caches the pointer to the vmalloc memory in videobuf locally. The alternative would be to call videobuf_to_vmalloc() for each processed USB data packet (isoc USB transfers => 64 times per URB) in the em28xx_copy_*() functions. With the next commits, the data processing code will be split into functions for serveral reasons: - em28xx_urb_data_copy() is generally way to long, making it less readable - there is code duplication between VBI and video data processing - support for em25xx data processing (uses a different header and frame end signaling mechanism) will be added This would require extensive usage of pointer-pointers, which usually makes the code less readable and prone to bugs. The better solution is to cache the pointer in struct em28xx_buffer. This also improves consistency, because we already track the buffer fill count there. Signed-off-by: Frank Schäfer <fschaefer.oss@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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