DBus method naming of upower/udisks (original) (raw)

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Dec 10 08:17:58 PST 2009

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 09:09 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

udisks already uses org.freedesktop.UDisks, and I expect upower will change similarly.

Right - and I think udisks, it being the project name is pretty OS neutral so I don't see any problem in using it in public interfaces. I also don't think we have any Linux specific bits in the interfaces.

Note that method names such as LinuxMdStop() isn't really related to "Linux, the kernel" or "Linux, the OS" - instead it's related to the on-disk format of (Linux) MD software raid and associated tools (e.g. mdadm(8)) and drivers (e.g. md(4)). Ditto for things like LuksLock() referring to LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup).

Presumably non-Linux OSes (or non-Linux kernels) could implement both Linux MD-RAID and LUKS - if not, implementations can just return the NotSupported error.

FWIW, we can always add similar interfaces for e.g. FreeBSD geom or ZFS or whatever - FWIW, I'm planning to add interfaces for better btrfs integration - might look similar to what ZFS will need.

Thanks, David

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