Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755851AbbDOHby (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:31:54 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:36642 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751907AbbDOHbr (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:31:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1429083093.3508.21.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 From: Mike Galbraith To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Al Viro , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , One Thousand Gnomes , Tom Gundersen , Jiri Kosina , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Daniel Mack , David Herrmann , Djalal Harouni Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:31:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <20150413190350.GA9485@kroah.com> <8738434yjk.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20150413194217.GA10837@kroah.com> <20150413202233.GR889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 35 On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 08:54 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Andy Lutomirski > wrote: > > > We had been there before. To paraphrase another... meticulously > > > honorable > > > person, "if you didn't want something relied upon, why have you > > > put it into the > > > kernel?" Said person is on the record as having no problem > > > whatsoever with > > > adding dependencies to the bottom of userland stack. > > > > It appears that, if kdbus is merged, upstream udev may end up > > requiring it: > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html > > Why so surprised? > kdbus will be a major hard-dependency for every non-trivial userland. > Like cgroups... Heh, makes one wonder how we ever survived. My openSUSE box is thoroughly infested with latest system-disease, and it seems the thing has now mandated group scheduling. Whether you need/want it and its size large overhead or not is immaterial. I'm not seeing an on/off switch anyway. (shrug, axe should work as substitute, say "byebye tentacle"). -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/