On 19/02/13 12:08, Martin Lucina wrote: > [email protected] said: >> On 23/01/13 09:44, DEBROUX Lionel wrote: >> >>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/504722/ >>> Sadly, while it has some clear use cases, AF_BUS is not part of the >>> mainline kernel, it remains an out-of-tree patch... >>> It was added to a patched third-party 3.4.x kernel yesterday, as part >>> of the LTSI (used only by a tiny minority): >>> https://lwn.net/Articles/533534/ . That might speed up the inclusion >>> of AF_BUS to mainline, only time will tell. >> >> IIRC, this is part of the DBus-in-kernel saga. >> >> What's important is that it shows that there a real need for messaging >> on kernel level. >> >> From my perspective, it would be nice to have a ZeroMQ-like one in the >> Linux kernel. There's an initial implementation here: >> >> https://github.com/250bpm/linux/tree/sp-linux >> >> However, more work would be needed to make it fully functional and >> eventually get it into mainline kernel. > > Also, more recently, this: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/537017/ > > You might want to get in touch with greg k-h about his plans. At the very > least, maybe he can be inspired by the ZeroMQ/XS/nanomsg APIs.
I'll possibly meet with some kernel guys later on this week, some of which are involved in the project (as I am said), but I would expect them to be pretty focused on automotive industry and DBUS use cases. The scalability issues may turn out to be out of scope. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
