BUS1 Still Remains Out Of The Mainline Linux Kernel, But DBus-Broker Continues

[phoronix]

Phoronix: BUS1 Still Remains Out Of The Mainline Linux Kernel, But DBus-Broker Continues

The BUS1 in-kernel IPC mechanism born out of the ashes of KDBUS still hasn't been mainlined in the Linux kernel, but its code is still improved upon from time to time. At least though DBus-Broker as a new performance-oriented D-Bus implementation continues gaining ground in user-space...

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[Azrael5]

As I said it is going to be another failure.

[wagaf]

As I said it is going to be another failure.

Sorry if it's stupid, just trying to understand..
We use Binder every day on Android, it's a very powerful feature. Why not simply merge the Android Binder code ?

[nanonyme]

DBUS broker is definitely picking up speed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chang...ableDbusBroker

[pipe13]

Okay. So Fedora 27 has a dbus-broker rpm. IF installed, would dbus-broker live alongside dbus, or somehow replace it? I'm reluctant to find out....

[sirblackheart]

Okay. So Fedora 27 has a dbus-broker rpm. IF installed, would dbus-broker live alongside dbus, or somehow replace it? I'm reluctant to find out....

You can install it alongside the reference dbus. It will "replace" the reference dbus in the sense of which implementation gets started by enabling it via systemd service. But you can easily revert it again by disabling it.

[Vasant1234]

Sorry if it's stupid, just trying to understand..
We use Binder every day on Android, it's a very powerful feature. Why not simply merge the Android Binder code ?

The Linux desktop guys suffer from the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome.

[FishB8]

The Linux desktop guys suffer from the NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome.

Binder is synchronous. An asynchronous message bus is desired.

[varikonniemi]

So where is the hold-up? Last i saw a presentation about bus1 it seemed very nice, is it too complex to use or is the code just not ready yet for mainlining?

[Steffo]

Sorry if it's stupid, just trying to understand..
We use Binder every day on Android, it's a very powerful feature. Why not simply merge the Android Binder code ?

AFAIK it's only suited for small data transmission.