On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Andy Walls wrote:
>> 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 does the address space in which decoding is performed make the
> decoding process better or worse?
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> 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 doin
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This has zero advantages besides good developer feeling that "My system
> has one less daemon..."
Surely it's clear that having an unnecessary daemon is introducing
another point of failure? Reducing complexity is not just its own
reward in
