Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:13:16 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>, Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>,
       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel
 IR  system?
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> If decoding can *only* be sanely handled in user-space, that's one
> thing. If it can be handled in kernel, then that would be better.

Why ?

I can compute fast fourier transforms in the kernel but that doesn't make
it better than doing it in user space. I can write web servers in the
kernel and the same applies.

Alan
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