Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

[Takashi Iwai]

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.


Takashi
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