Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com> writes: > If you use a kfifo to store the event (space_or_mark, timestamp), > the IRQ handler can return immediately, and a separate kernel thread > can do the decode without needing to touch at the IRQ.
But the decoding itself is a really simple thing, why complicate it? There is no need for the kernel thread if the handler is fast (and it is). Userspace is obviously different. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
