[linux-audio-user] Re: What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Sampo Savolainen]

Quoting Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de>:

> We all would be glad if we didn't need to patch and recompile 
> the kernel. BUt there's hope that we get realtime 
> capabilities in the vanilla kernel soon. Let's stay tuned.

You are a bit late actually. :)

>From 2.6.12 changelog:

"commit e43379f10b42194b8a6e1de342cfb44463c0f6da
Author: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
Date:   Sun May 1 08:59:00 2005 -0700

    [PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimits
    
    Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt
    priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by
    Chris Wright.
    
    The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice)
priorities
    a task can set.  The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by
    default.  A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed.  A
value of
    100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed.  CAP_SYS_NICE is
    blanket permission.
    
    (akpm: see
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for
    tips on integrating this with PAM).
    
    Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>"


 Sampo Savolainen