On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > Hello! > > In the light of > > * kdbus support is no longer compile-time optional. It is now > always built-in. However, it can still be disabled at
a patch to remove all of that code would be welcome... > runtime using the kdbus=0 kernel command line setting, and > that setting may be changed to default to off, by specifying > --disable-kdbus at build-time. Note though that the kernel > command line setting has no effect if the kdbus.ko kernel > module is not installed, in which case kdbus is (obviously) > also disabled. We encourage all downstream distributions to > begin testing kdbus by adding it to the kernel images in the > development distributions, and leaving kdbus support in > systemd enabled. > > Lennart Poettering: [systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v221 > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/033170.html > > I hope you kernel developers will still review kdbus carefully as you did so > far, instead of giving in to any downstream pressure by distros. > > It is exactly this attitude and this approach of systemd upstream that I > feel uneasy about. Instead of humbly waiting and working towards having > kdbus accepted to the kernel, systemd developers seem to use any means to > create indirect pressure to have it included eventually. > > I hope that it will still be technical excellence as entry barrier for > anything that goes into the kernel. > > Please note: I do not judge upon the technical quality of kdbus. I think > others are more knowledgeable to do it. > > Thank you, > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
