Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:37:06 +0100 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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At Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:29:02 +0100, Martin Mares wrote: > > Hello! > > > i think this is true only if the kernel comes with capabilities > > enabled. > > > > various media-centric distributions (CCRMA, demudi, dyne:bolic and > > others) enabled them for their 2.4 kernels, but not the major > > desktop-centric ones. then the impression began to be received that in > > 2.6, capabilities were even more questionable of a mechanism to use. > > In addition, the LSM system appeared, and seemed to offer a much > > better solution entirely: no need to patch the kernel at all, or at > > least it appeared to be so in the beginning. Hence the "realtime" LSM. > > Yes, but is there really some difference between people having to enable > LSM and add a new LSM module, and people recompiling the kernel to include > capabilities?
For distributors, it's much easier to provide an additional module than to let people recompile kernels.
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