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

Martin Habets errandir_news at mph.eclipse.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 11:38:57 EDT 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:19:45PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:04:41 -0700
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >    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?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> > 
> 
> That would soooo suck, as my favourite distro is debian and the feature
> wishlist item for rtlimits enabled PAM is already several months old. I
> suppose they'll probably take another year to apply the goddamn patch to
> libpam.

Probably longer, as I dont expect this to make the release the wanna put
out this year (is that etch?). It could be another 18 months after that
before the next one comes along.

> Maybe it is time to switch distros. Do [K]Ubuntu have this already?

Since the problem is cause by the kernel, I'll probably fix it there
by undoing the patch that removes the realtime-lsm hooks. No need to
switch distro.

-- 
Martin



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