[linux-audio-user] LKML: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks)

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 23:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > This thread is happening on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Since
> > I'm not a programmer I don't understand the full ramifications. Can
> > someone here tell me would this render the realtime-lsm module
> > unusable and if so what would I have to do to get realtime operation
> > without realtime-lsm?
> 
> this would be horrible because my machine doesn't boot a patched kernel.
> 
> Didn't test the recent vanilla kernels, though. I heard these are very 
> audio friendly without furtzer patching?

You are confusing the -rt patch which improves the kernel's realtime
performance with the realtime LSM which provides access to realtime
scheduling to non-root users.

The realtime LSM is really no longer needed as PAM or set_rtlimits
solves the problem without requiring a kernel patch