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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:03:10 +0300
From:      Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal@zone3000.net>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, Shteryana Shopova <syrinx@FreeBSD.org>, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@FreeBSD.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20070711180310.GA33283@zone3000.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070711195110.48820aff@deskjail>
References:  <20070711190546.4b202080@deskjail> <57627.1184175231@critter.freebsd.dk> <20070711195110.48820aff@deskjail>

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On Wednesday, 11 July 2007 at 19:51:10 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> (Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:33:51 +0000):
> 
> > In message <20070711190546.4b202080@deskjail>, Alexander Leidinger writes:
> > >Quoting "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@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?

I think he wants to say that you could have a broader look at this
problem. Placing the code into kernel is not a necessary requriemet
here to create a unified framework. It can be done much easier in
the user environment. Or don't you forget a mocrokernel approach?

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