DBus method naming of upower/udisks

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 09:09 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> udisks already uses org.freedesktop.UDisks, and I expect upower will
> change similarly.

Right - and I think udisks, it being the project name is pretty OS
neutral so I don't see any problem in using it in public interfaces. I
also don't think we have any Linux specific bits in the interfaces.

Note that method names such as LinuxMdStop() isn't really related to
"Linux, the kernel" or "Linux, the OS" - instead it's related to the
on-disk format of (Linux) MD software raid and associated tools (e.g.
mdadm(8)) and drivers (e.g. md(4)). Ditto for things like LuksLock()
referring to LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup).

Presumably non-Linux OSes (or non-Linux kernels) could implement both
Linux MD-RAID and LUKS - if not, implementations can just return the
NotSupported error.

FWIW, we can always add similar interfaces for e.g. FreeBSD geom or ZFS
or whatever - FWIW, I'm planning to add interfaces for better btrfs
integration - might look similar to what ZFS will need.

Thanks,
David