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Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

Posted Feb 10, 2013 12:15 UTC (Sun) by engla (guest, #47454)
In reply to: Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel by tzafrir
Parent article: Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

libdbus can be implemented on top of the kernel support. What says that you couldn't fall back to the current implementation if the kernel support is lacking?


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Kroah-Hartman: AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel

Posted Feb 10, 2013 14:15 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

But that's legacy code. Who would bother maintaining it (not just the extra code and ifdefs in libdbus. Also the dbusd)?

I managed to keep using that old a kernel version by ignoring the minimally-required kernel image version required by Debian. I ignored it as it was generally a requirement of udev and I did not need udev on that server.

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