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

[Ikke <nicolas trangez gmail com>]

I guess another deamon is overkill, sin't it? Let dbus-daemon listen
to the specific netlink socket... Maybe user-configurable (on/off)

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:17:02 +0200, Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 10:34 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm, the whole thing didn't reach the community by now, may be the
> reason.
> 
> > Also, we have not found any huge needs for an
> > asynchronous event system - processor over[h]eating, not withstanding.
> 
> Same thing, until we provide some working code, nobody will even think
> about it and stick with the 20th century stuff :).
> It was the same thing with udev - there were a lot of discussions about
> it, but for one year nothing really happened. Just after we got some
> code, that proved the concept, we got more attention.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> See you there :) But, what is the right way to connect to dbus? Another
> daemon, or integrate it into dbus? Did you try something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kay
> 
> 
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