Re: [Utopia] kernel -> dbus event delivery?

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 12:23 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > does anybody know about the current state of the kernel<->dbus event-link?
> > Is there anything I can play with :) The only reference I could find, is
> > Arjan's patch:
> >   http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/linux-2.6.0-dbus.patch
> > 
> > What is the glue between the kernels NETLINK_DBUS and the dbus-daemon?
> 
> Erm, isn't the 'correct' glue the hotplug subsystem?

No, for sure, it isn't. Hotplug is cool for the low level thing and
basic device tasks, but not for sending, possibly a lot of messages. The
netlink transport is a much nicer than to create a environment and fork
a helper.

Thanks,
Kay