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Subject: Re: Sdbusplus-based Shared Library
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On 19/03/18 10:41 pm, Patrick Venture wrote:
> We have a lot of duplication across daemons using sdbusplus, and no
> new utility library.  To avoid every daemon having their own timer
> object, and their own this or that, I suggest we create this shared
> library.
> 
> Thoughts?  We can start simple, just have a timer object in there, and
> then the new timers being introduced to phosphor-hwmon and
> phosphor-host-ipmid can be the first customers.
> 
> Patrick

I think sdbusplus is specifically a systemd D-Bus API wrapper. So I 
wonder if need more such wrappers (for eg one around the systemd event 
loop, to add objects like timers, IO etc) around systemd-based API than 
having them all in sdbusplus.

Regards,
Deepak