sensors fun..

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> (from Fri, 19 Oct 2007  
13:20:33 +0000):

> In message <20071019151426.ttkynf788c0g8s4k at webmail.leidinger.net>,   
> Alexander L
> eidinger writes:
>
> Alexander,
>
> I'm getting pretty tired of this game of yours.

I'm asking questions to understand what is going on.

> Either you're not paying attention to what I write, or you are so
> totally blinded by rage that you don't try to understand it.

I'm not in rage and I was not in rage.

> This is my last email to you on this subject.

That's sad.

> As far as I can tell, you have nothing to do with the actual code,

We're talking about architecture here in this thread on arch, not  
about any specific commits to the CVS.

> apart from committing it without proper review and discussion, so

I was willing to discuss this with you and others long ago, but you  
stopped talking without any notification why. Then you stomped in  
saying that you don't like the _idea_ of the framework without  
pointing to technical flaws (you mentioned you didn't even looked at  
the architecture). Now you tell me that you don't want to discuss  
architectural things with me. Could you please tell me what I did to  
you that you don't want to talk with me?

> why don't you step out of the loop, and leave Constantine, who,
> quite frankly, seems to have a better grasp of the subject than
> you, participate instead ?

You don't care to explain where my point of view of monitoring is wrong?

>>>> What to do with sensors which aren't event based or don't have a
>>>> predefined polling interval (e.g., temperature and humidity)? What do
>>>> you think will the ratio be between the amount of sensors with and
>>>> without something like this?
>>>
>>> They poll at whatever rate the application ask them to, (using an
>>> ioctl ?)
>>
>> So you want to put the polling interval (=3D the polling policy) into =20
>> the kernel (with e.g, an ioctl)?
>
> No, the "polling policy" does not end up in the kernel if the
> application calls an ioctl that says "poll every 5 seconds".
>
> Look up the meaning of the word policy if you don't belive me.

According to dict.leo.org:
  english                            german
policy     especially [comp.]      die Richtlinie

If you say "poll every 5 seconds" you give the kernel "die Richtlinie"  
to look every 5 seconds for the sensor data and to provide it to the  
application. Looks good to me in my language. As you don't like it:  
feel free to replace every ocurence of "polling policy" with "polling  
interval" in my questions. If you think those questions are not worth  
being answered, I would like to know why.

Bye,
Alexander.

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