| Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:43:40 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:28:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Why is kdbus needed?
Presumably because freedesktop crowd has made an architectural mistake and pushed dbus as solution to all problems. And ran into limitations of that, er, solution. Then, instead of perhaps reconsidering the wisdom of their inspired decision, went for "let's push it kernelwards, it might somewhat reduce the overhead and problems will be easier to chalk up to something wrong being done by the kernel".
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