Re: Out-of-tree modules [was: Linux Security *Module* Framework]

[Lee Revell]

On 10/29/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> quad_dsp - http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/quad_dsp/
>
> Provides a /dev/dsp style node for legacy applications that support
> neither ALSA nor the AOSS wrapper nor more-than-2-channel sound.
>

(I think that should read "AND more than 2 channel sound")

Couldn't ALSA's OSS emulation be extended to support more than 2
channels per device node?

>
> thkd - ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/kernel/linux-2.6.23.1-ccj58/thkd.diff
>
> Workaround for Toshiba MK2003GAH hard-drive head auto-unloading after
> 5-15 seconds. (Ref: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/100 )

It looks like this could be trivially fixed in a mergeable way.  That
LKML thread petered out before the problem was seriously analyzed.

Did you try the -Z flag of hdparm?

Lee
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