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

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 12:45 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Mmm, I see.
> 
> I think it certainly shouldn't be dbus specific though. It's all very well to 
> have a generic "passes information packets to userpsace" type of netlink 
> socket, but trying to tie it (even if only in name) to DBUS is a mistake IMO.

Yeah, I thought the same thing, after the first read. But I expect, that
the message will be very tied to the dbus concept, so why not call it
that way, it's a nice promotion :) Let's see what is already there, to
get the whole picture.

Kay