linux-kernel - Re: Out-of-tree modules [was: Linux Security *Module* Framework]

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:46:09 -0400
From:	"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, "Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Simon Arlott" <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	"Chris Wright" <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andreas Gruenbacher" <agruen@...e.de>,
	"Thomas Fricaccia" <thomas_fricacci@...oo.com>,
	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"James Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Crispin Cowan" <crispin@...spincowan.com>,
	"Giacomo Catenazzi" <cate@...ian.org>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Out-of-tree modules [was: Linux Security *Module* Framework]

On 10/29/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:
> quad_dsp - http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/quad_dsp/
>
> Provides a /dev/dsp style node for legacy applications that support
> neither ALSA nor the AOSS wrapper nor more-than-2-channel sound.
>

(I think that should read "AND more than 2 channel sound")

Couldn't ALSA's OSS emulation be extended to support more than 2
channels per device node?

>
> thkd - ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/kernel/linux-2.6.23.1-ccj58/thkd.diff
>
> Workaround for Toshiba MK2003GAH hard-drive head auto-unloading after
> 5-15 seconds. (Ref: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/100 )

It looks like this could be trivially fixed in a mergeable way.  That
LKML thread petered out before the problem was seriously analyzed.

Did you try the -Z flag of hdparm?

Lee
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