KBUS is a lightweight, Linux kernel mediated messaging system, particularly intended for use in embedded environments. It is meant to be simple to use and understand. It is designed to provide predictable message delivery, deterministic message ordering, and a guaranteed reply for each request. It is especially aimed at situations where existing solutions, such as DBUS, cannot be used, typically because of system constraints. We have various customers using KBUS in real life, and believe it to be useful. I had a showcase table for KBUS at the ELCE in Cambridge, October last year, and there seemed to be interest. The KBUS project home page is at http://kbus-messaging.org/, from which there are links to the original Google code repository, more documentation, and various userspace libraries. There is a working repository with these patches applied to Linux 2.6.37, available via: git pull git://github.com/crazyscot/linux-2.6-kbus.git kbus-2.6.37 These patches have been applied in branch apply-patchset-20110318 In order to keep the size of individual patches down, the main code has been split over several patches (0004..0009). With luck this should also make it easier to understand what KBUS is trying to do. Tony Ibbs (11): Documentation for KBUS KBUS external header file. KBUS internal header file KBUS main source file, basic device support only KBUS add support for messages KBUS add ability to receive messages only once KBUS add ability to add devices at runtime KBUS add Replier Bind Events KBUS Replier Bind Event set-aside lists KBUS report state to userspace KBUS configuration and Makefile Documentation/Kbus.txt | 1222 ++++++++++++ include/linux/kbus_defns.h | 666 +++++++ init/Kconfig | 2 + ipc/Kconfig | 117 ++ ipc/Makefile | 9 + ipc/kbus_internal.h | 723 +++++++ ipc/kbus_main.c | 4690 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ipc/kbus_report.c | 256 +++ 8 files changed, 7685 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/Kbus.txt create mode 100644 include/linux/kbus_defns.h create mode 100644 ipc/Kconfig create mode 100644 ipc/kbus_internal.h create mode 100644 ipc/kbus_main.c create mode 100644 ipc/kbus_report.c -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
