From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266512AbUG0SRO (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:17:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266533AbUG0SRN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:17:13 -0400 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:36998 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266512AbUG0SRI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:17:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:15:20 -0400 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [patch] kernel events layer In-reply-to: <20040726204457.GA10970@hockin.org> To: Tim Hockin Cc: Greg KH , Oliver Neukum , Robert Love , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Andrew Morton , cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <41069BB8.1030405@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <1090853403.1973.11.camel@localhost> <20040726161221.GC17449@kroah.com> <200407262013.33454.oliver@neukum.org> <20040726190305.GA19498@kroah.com> <20040726204457.GA10970@hockin.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim Hockin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:03:05PM -0400, Greg KH wrote: > >>>On a related note, is this supposed to supersede the current hotplug >>>mechanism? >> >>No, it will not. At the most, it will report the same information to >>make it easier for userspace programs who want to get the other >>event information, also get the hotplug stuff through the same >>interface, reducing their complexity. >> >>So the existing hotplug interface is not going away at all. Do not even >>begin to think that :) > > > What about flipping it around and using either hotplug or a hotplug-like > mechanism for these events? > > It solves the issue of events being dropped when there is no listening > daemon... > > These are not going to be high-traffic messages, right, so the overhead is > negligible... > The problem with this is that you'd lose the ability to send the messages broadcast, whereby you may have multiple dbus's listening for events. - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBpu3dQs4kOxk3/MRAthIAJ41mD9SV3tfZosw2H26Vt4xayKP5ACbB4Eb QQImIFvK2NXCt0B5dHPj5ps= =1TDt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----