Svante Signell wrote: > This is a really good initiative :) Let's get rid of that dbus bloat!
I'm reading a little more about dbus, and find it was developed by Havoc Pennington, one of the important kernel contributors, IIRC. I'm not sure *I* need it, but he makes a good case for it and explains some apparent oddities here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8648437 in response to this critical article. http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2014-11.html Linus has been critical of the protocol design. At the time the kdbus kernel module was proposed, He said that flaws in in the protocol are to blame for poor performance rather than kernel limitations. Also, some blame can be laid on the application developers. It's one thing to use dbus for automounting an external drive, other to use it hundreds or thousands of times per second. However from their point of view, convenience matters more, and processors are certain to get faster. Those who care enough about reducing the overhead will avoid or limit their use of dbus. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
