DBus in the kernel?

Ian Molton ian.molton at collabora.co.uk
Wed Jan 6 04:00:19 PST 2010


Lennart Poettering wrote:

> 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.

well, you either need to use data than dbus can marshall efficiently or
not... OTOH, I'd have thought a byte stream could be marshalled with
damn near zero overhead. (other than dbus' current two context switch
overhead)


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