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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: [patch] kernel events layer
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:15:20PM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
> > What about flipping it around and using either hotplug or a hotplug-like
> > mechanism for these events?

> The problem with this is that you'd lose the ability to send the
> messages broadcast, whereby you may have multiple dbus's listening for
> events.

Broadcast it in user space.