Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed Jul 11 12:44:56 UTC 2007


Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> (from Wed, 11 Jul 2007  
12:27:49 +0000):

> In message <20070711134959.2q3akd4zk0o8404c at webmail.leidinger.net>,   
> Alexander Leidinger writes:
>
>> What Poul-Henning is talking about looks to me like a presentation
>> layer, while I see the sensors framework (as far as I understand it)
>> as an infrastructure layer.
>
> I think you will only confuse things by adopting the seven layer OSI
> mistake: the communications aspect of this is absolutely trivial.

I was not thinking about 7-layer-OSI, I was thinking about 3 layers:  
presentation, infrastructure and "low-level" data acquiring stuff (I  
prefer the pragmatic way of looking at things).

Bye,
Alexander.

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