Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261511AbVAGQkO (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:40:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261510AbVAGQhn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:37:43 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36582 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261507AbVAGQhL (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:37:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:37:06 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Martin Mares Cc: Paul Davis , Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Lee Revell , Ingo Molnar , Chris Wright , Alan Cox , "Jack O'Quin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM In-Reply-To: <20050107162902.GA7097@ucw.cz> References: <20050107160808.GB6529@ucw.cz> <200501071614.j07GEgEC018705@localhost.localdomain> <20050107162902.GA7097@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 15) (Security Through Obscurity) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 30 At Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:29:02 +0100, Martin Mares wrote: > > Hello! > > > i think this is true only if the kernel comes with capabilities > > enabled. > > > > various media-centric distributions (CCRMA, demudi, dyne:bolic and > > others) enabled them for their 2.4 kernels, but not the major > > desktop-centric ones. then the impression began to be received that in > > 2.6, capabilities were even more questionable of a mechanism to use. > > In addition, the LSM system appeared, and seemed to offer a much > > better solution entirely: no need to patch the kernel at all, or at > > least it appeared to be so in the beginning. Hence the "realtime" LSM. > > Yes, but is there really some difference between people having to enable > LSM and add a new LSM module, and people recompiling the kernel to include > capabilities? For distributors, it's much easier to provide an additional module than to let people recompile kernels. Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/