From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261800AbVADSzJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:55:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261804AbVADSzI (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:55:08 -0500 Received: from mail.joq.us ([67.65.12.105]:48036 "EHLO sulphur.joq.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261800AbVADSyt (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:54:49 -0500 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM References: <1104374603.9732.32.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050103140359.GA19976@infradead.org> <1104862614.8255.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050104182010.GA15254@infradead.org> From: "Jack O'Quin" Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:55:15 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20050104182010.GA15254@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:20:10 +0000") Message-ID: <87u0pxhvn0.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > Which still doesn't mean it's the right design. And no, I don't > need the feature so I won't write it. If you want a certain feature > it's up to you to implement it in a way that's considered mergeable. Which is what I have done. I worked on it because no "real" kernel developer seemed willing to solve it. Having worked on other kernels in an "earlier lifetime", I have *no* desire to do that any more. I would much rather write audio software. But, the lack of this feature has been a continual impediment for years now. It affects not just me, but most other serious Linux audio developers and many of our users. We need a simple way for users to configure a Digital Audio Workstation without having to run large, complex, insecure audio applications as `root'. Our competition runs on Windows and Mac systems where no such configuration is needed. Statements of the form "had I cared enough to do something about this problem, I would have implemented it differently" are not much help. This patch is small and clean. It meshes with existing kernel LSM mechanisms. It solves a real problem affecting many Linux desktop users. I respectfully request that it be accepted for inclusion in 2.6.11. -- joq