DBus in the kernel?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.01.10 12:00, Havoc Pennington (hp at pobox.com) wrote:

> 
> The theory fwiw has always been that if you're shoveling lots of data
> what you'd do is use dbus for control/setup and have another channel
> to shovel the data. This is even easier with the new fd support
> Lennart did.

That is certainly doable, and is in fact done by some projects
(i.e. bluez passes BT audio via such a side-channel). However it kinda
sucks that as soon as you want to pass more than boring control data
you cannot use dbus anymore and need to invent your own protocol.

Lennart

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