The kdbuswreck
The kdbuswreck
[Kernel] Posted Apr 22, 2015 19:41 UTC (Wed) by corbet
Few readers will have failed to notice by now that the attempted merging of the kdbus interprocess communication system into the 4.1 kernel has failed to go as well as its proponents would have liked. As of this writing, the discussion continues and nothing has been merged. This article constitutes an attempt to derive a bit of light from the massive amounts of heat that have been generated so far, with a specific focus on the issue of metadata and capabilities.