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

[Robert Love <rml ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:12 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> 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?

The work is a bit stagnate because I don't have overwhelming support
from the community.  Also, we have not found any huge needs for an
asynchronous event system - processor over[h]eating, not withstanding.
It will be nice to send up file system events so we don't have to pull
mtab, et al, but that is an optimization and not a requirement.

Oh, some IBM guys are super interested, as a mechanism to provide event
logging from drivers.

I will be talking at OLS on the event system and D-BUS, so hopefully I
can attract some attention.

Anyhow, my latest patch is here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/events/

Its the same codebase as Arjan's.

	Robert Love