Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc1

Posted Apr 28, 2015 13:44 UTC (Tue) by d9 (guest, #102181)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc1 by Thue
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc1

> please go ahead and elaborate

You can start here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1939166
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1939022

> kdbus has been under development for 2 years now

It is unfortunate that a lot of time and money was spent on it, but that is a silly reason to force its adoption into the kernel, especially when the main justification for its existence (improving DBus performance) appears to be flawed.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Some people learn it the hard way.