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From: Andy Kow <kowandy@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:15:00 +0000
Subject: Re: D-BUS support?
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Thanks a lot for clarification.

Andy

--- On Tue, 4/13/10, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Subject: Re: D-BUS support?
> To: "Andy Kow" <kowandy@yahoo.ca>
> Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 1:27 AM
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 22:15, Andy
> Kow <kowandy@yahoo.ca>
> wrote:
> > I heard D-BUS would be supported by udev in the next
> release, and application could use D-BUS to hook up with
> udev to get device add/remove notification. However, when I
> look to the latest development source codes, I don't find
> any D-BUS API is being used.
> >
> > Can you please confirm if D-BUS is supported? if so
> what does policy rule look like?
> 
> There is no support, and it was never planned to add D-Bus
> interfaces
> to udev. Libudev uses a single file descriptor, and pure
> netlink for
> communication.
> 
> Kay
>