sensors fun..

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20071019.100516.74722974.imp at bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh writes:

>> The kernel-userland interface should happen over a filedescriptor
>> (either device or unix-domain socket) so that whatever daemon we
>> park on the fd can just use select/poll/kqueue to wait for events.
>
>If we're going to have a stream of data from the kernel, is there any
>reason to invent another daemon for that?  We already have devd that
>deals with a number of disparate events from the kernel in a fairly
>generic way.

The kernel and userland sensors would result in two kinds of data,
measurements ("32°C") and events ("new sensor", "high temp")

devd should not see the measurements, but it might be a good idea
if it could see the events from all sensors (userland AND kernel).

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