linux-kernel - Re: kdbus: add documentation

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Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:56:43 +0100
From:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, ebiederm@...ssion.com, gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	teg@...m.no, jkosina@...e.cz, luto@...capital.net,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	daniel@...que.org, dh.herrmann@...il.com, tixxdz@...ndz.org
Subject: Re: kdbus: add documentation

* Greg Kroah-Hartman:

> +The focus of this document is an overview of the low-level, native kernel D-Bus
> +transport called kdbus. Kdbus exposes its functionality via files in a
> +filesystem called 'kdbusfs'. All communication between processes takes place
> +via ioctls on files exposed through the mount point of a kdbusfs. The default
> +mount point of kdbusfs is /sys/fs/kdbus.

Does this mean the bus does not enforce the correctness of the D-Bus
introspection metadata?  That's really unfortunate.  Classic D-Bus
does not do this, either, and combined with the variety of approaches
used to implement D-Bus endpoints, it makes it really difficult to
figure out what D-Bus services, exactly, a process provides.
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