Luke Yelavich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently preparing an updated kernel, and am wondering whether > any of the proposed patches for a 2.4 kernel are stable enough to be > usable. If so, where can I obtain the patches?
The most stable and best-tested is the two-line capabilities patch. It is generally applied by hand, editing capability.h as described here... http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php#a5 This is sufficient to allow you to run JACK applications using jackstart, assuming you compiled it with --enable-capabilities. In addition, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen posted a kernel patch to this list... http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/schedmlockpatch-2.4.23-rc1 I modified it to work with my 2.4.19 system and ran with it for a while. It works fine for me. YMMV. I've been working on a similar patch with realtime group support, but have not released it yet. If you want to run JACK with Kjetil's patch, use current CVS, it has a small change that allows creation of realtime client threads without requiring capabilities. Right now, I'm more interested in 2.6. Torben Hohn wrote a Linux Security Module that is functionally equivalent to the 2.4 capabilities patch (see above), but dynamically installable without modifying the kernel. He posted it in a message to this list. This is a big step forward, since it works with a completely unmodified kernel. I've been running it for about a week now without any problems. -- joq
