[systemd-devel] tree-wide conversion from libdbus to libsystemd-bus

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 01:55:49 CEST 2013


Just to be clear, this is step b/, i.e. systemd will still use dbus-daemon?

Is there an ETA for when kdbus will land in the kernel, i.e. step c/?

2013/10/23 Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>:
> Most of the original plan outlined a couple of months ago is still valid:
>   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009797.html
>
> We now have all the major pieces to port to the new library available
> in the systemd tree. Converting tools is half way mechanical
> replacing, the other half rewriting the bus hookup.
>
> Things get a lot shorter and more readable, and the bus-related code
> is usually less than half the size. The core piece of services which
> export things to the bus look like this now:
>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/locale/localed.c#n1040
>
> To avoid any duplication of work, here are the tools which still need
> conversion. Please reply to this mail, in case you decide to work on
> anything in that area.
>
> - systemd-analyze
>     "thomasandersen> kay: ok. I could attempt to do a sd-bus patch
>                                  for it since I am doing other changes
> there anyway?
>
> - timedatectl
>
> - systemd-machined
>
> - machinectl
>     pending patch from Tom:
>       http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-October/013772.html
>
> - systemd-logind
>
> - loginctl
>
> - localectl
>     Kay will do that next
>
> - hostnamectl
>
> - pam_systemd
>
> - systemctl
>
> - systemd
>
> Thanks,
> Kay
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