22 Aug
2003
22 Aug
'03
1:50 p.m.
Actually, I'd like to hear about why the kernel developers were shocked about our use
of capabilities. Could you expand on that?
Taybin
-------Original Message-------
From: Mark Knecht <mknecht(a)controlnet.com>
Sent: 08/22/03 09:55 AM
To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] Help neede with ardour
This is exactly what I have suggested yesterday and today. Gentoo does
this
other places, like with 3D acceleration. They provide ebuild that don't
work
until I compile my kernel to turn on certain things and edit my XF86config
file to enable features.
We'll see. I think we'll get there.
A while back some of the kernel developers were a bit shocked we were
using
capabilities this way, but that's another story! ;-)
- Mark
> >
> I will still enter a request, but it looks like this is considered
at
least
controversial by some at Gentoo.
Just including jackstart seems very sensible. The Debian package
includes jackstart and has instructions on how to patch the kernel for
capabilities. But if a user is running a stock kernel, jackstart
will not work, and one is forced to use jackd. This is absoluetly
okay, IMO.
The alternative would be to build a kernel-image, on that jackstart
depends, which just will not work out in the end. It's better to just
leave that in the users' responsibiliy.