sensors framework continued (architecture)

Nikolay Pavlov qpadla at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 09:56:27 PST 2007


On Monday 26 November 2007 15:33:19 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> What we discuss in this thread is the kernel<->userland interface. You  
> wrote that Linux uses sysfs as the kernel<->userland interface. Poul  
> proposes the /dev/sensors special file (not directory) as the  
> kernel<->userland interface, and I propose sysctl as the  
> kernel<->userland interface.

This is file descriptor based interface if i am not mistaken. But it uses 
natural MIB-like directory structure. Isn't this is a compromise? 

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