Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernelIR system?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Nov 29 2009 - 13:12:29 EST


> 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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