On 12/01/2014 09:23 AM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: >> told quite plainly that such distributions are not worth consideration. If >> kdbus >> is merged despite concerns about security and backward compatibility, could >> we >> at least have the shim moved to libc netural place, like Linus' tree? > > I would expect any other libc would fork the shim anyway (or just not > bother with systemd in most cases).
If the shim were in glibc, then that would be reasonable, but the shim is in systemd. That would make the systemd developers the gate keepers ta kernel interface. If we are going to enforce Linus' stable API policy, then the shim should be in a repository that has a track record for interface stability, which the systemd developers simply do not have. It was not that long ago that firmware loading was moved into the kernel because they had caused problems. I do not think that the systemd developers are the correct ones to assume stewardship over such code. If kdbus is merged, I think the best situation would be to move it into Linus' tree.
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