Hardware decoder

configname: CONFIG_IR_IMG_HW

Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Device Drivers
└─>Remote Controller support
└─>Remote Controller devices
└─>Hardware decoder
In linux kernel since version 3.10 (release Date: 2013-06-30)  
Say Y here to enable the hardware decode driver which decodes the IR
signals in hardware. This is more reliable, consumes less processing
power since only a single interrupt is received for each scancode,
and allows an IR scancode to be used as a wake event.