Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> (Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:33:51 +0000):

> In message <20070711190546.4b202080 at deskjail>, Alexander Leidinger writes:
> >Quoting "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> (Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:54:40 +0000):
> 
> >You are focusing on physical devices which are specially build as a
> >sensor for some specific stuff. I put my focus on the kernel framework
> >which allows to unify the handling of sensoric data from kernel
> >devices.
> 
> I'm trying to point out that your kernel framework belongs in userland.

It's not my framework.

> There is no benefit from having it in the kernel.

You need to get some information out of the kernel somehow (you cut
this part of my mail). And as far as I understand the high level
description (presentation in the net) of this framework, this does this
in an unified way. Do you propose to get the information out of the
kernel in a non-uniform way?

Bye,
Alexander.

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