I've had the same idea, but there might be some pitfalls around.
The problem boils down to the users of the buffer. Is it per-device,
per-process, per-whatever?
Once this is known I'm all for putting the buffer into a per-whatever
data structure. But someone has to understand the driver first. :)
Jörn
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