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From: Lei Yang <leiyang@nec-labs.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com,
	Kernel Newbies Mailing List <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel modules
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:44:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412A10ED.3080809@nec-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040823152540.GA8791@mars.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Lei Yang wrote:
> 
>>Sort of, I am trying to make a usr mode library work with kernel. 
>>However, floating point operation is necessary in the algorithm. You 
>>mean that this can never be done? Is changing floating-point the only 
>>thing I can do now?
> 
> 
> Before helping out more with your compile issue please explain in propser
> detail what you try to achive.
> Reading the above I get the impression you thing a library will run
> faster when running in kernel context - and thats what you try to do.
> 
> If this is your plan then the answer is: Drop it.


NO, this is not my plan :)

I was trying to build a compression/decompression utility with my 
algorithm in kernel, and want to use it in some of the device drivers.
And in that algorithm, we need floating-point.

Thanks!
Lei

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-21 19:24 Problems compiling kernel modules Lei Yang
2004-08-21 21:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-21 19:45   ` Lei Yang
2004-08-21 20:05     ` viro
2004-08-21 20:13     ` Lee Revell
2004-08-21 21:50     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-21 19:55       ` Lei Yang
2004-08-21 20:46       ` Lei Yang
2004-08-21 20:57         ` Lee Revell
2004-08-23 14:10           ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 14:29             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-23 14:39               ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 14:52                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-23 15:04                   ` Lei Yang
2004-08-23 15:20                     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-23 15:25                     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-23 15:44                       ` Lei Yang [this message]
2004-08-23 16:21                         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 14:52                 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-23 15:48               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-21 21:11         ` Alex Goddard

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