sensors fun..

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Oct 17 22:17:21 PDT 2007


In message <4716B4DA.9090603 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>On the other hand some sensors may be best reachable from the kernel
>(e.g. being integrated with some other device).
>so an approach that allows both would be the best.

Stuff that enables userland programs to talk to such devices are
called "device drivers" :-)

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