Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:38:12 +0200 From: Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Aur=E9lien_M=E9r=E9=22?= <aurelien.mere@amc-os.com>, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Common interface for sensors/health monitoring Message-ID: <843B14C2-D6D0-4910-B1B4-C7A8CB37635D@msys.ch> In-Reply-To: <20090823182454.00006387@unknown> References: <D3D19C706C2842389C87590424D0A8CB@kmlaptop> <6101e8c40908211917k69c82491w3cff00a527d14873@mail.gmail.com> <19e9a5dc0908212303j28a6913er604bfd06e7df81ec@mail.gmail.com> <2DC22872-96F5-4C0A-82E4-F9755A10E245@msys.ch> <20090822182923.000064e0@unknown> <C1C76364BD5341C887C0AEA906BB5763@kmlaptop> <20090823170849.00000fdb@unknown> <7306B4ED-D9AF-4946-9FCE-BD1CE7685AC2@msys.ch> <20090823182454.00006387@unknown>
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Am 23.08.2009 um 18:24 schrieb Alexander Leidinger:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:13:42 +0200 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Am 23.08.2009 um 17:08 schrieb Alexander Leidinger:
>>
>>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:02:32 +0200 "Aur=E9lien M=E9r=E9"
>>> <aurelien.mere@amc-os.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm just afraid by reading your email that the situation doesn't
>>>> seem to have evolved since the discussion regarding the SoC, maybe
>>>> even more taboo, and that I'll have to keep writing my own
>>>> software and drivers to get the data I want in the future if I
>>>> want to get this data under FreeBSD.. Is it the case ?
>>>
>>> It is not "taboo", it is just that nobody wants to spend his spare
>>> time
>>> with something like this now.
>>>
>>> And yes, as far as I know you have to keep writting our own stuff.
>>> But maybe we can set up a wiki page where people can share their
>>> FreeBSD specific stuff. Someone just has to be willing to invest
>>> some time to add stuff. I have a little script which adds 24 values
>>> to ganglia, and it's extensible (4 lines for wach value), e.g.:
>>> ---snip---
>>> metrics=3D"${metrics} HD3_Temp"
>>> HD3_Temp_value=3D"$(smartctl -A ad3 |awk '/Temperature_Celsius/
>>> { print $10 }')" HD3_Temp_type=3D"uint8"
>>> HD3_Temp_unit=3D"Celsius"
>>>
>>> metrics=3D"${metrics} logins"
>>> logins_value=3D"$(who -q | grep users | cut -d ' ' -f 4)"
>>> logins_type=3D"uint8"
>>> logins_unit=3D"Users"
>>>
>>> metrics=3D"${metrics} SwapIn"
>>> SwapIn_value=3D"$(sysctl vm.stats.vm.v_swapin | cut -d ' ' -f 2)"
>>> SwapIn_type=3D"uint32"
>>> SwapIn_unit=3D"Units"
>>> ---snip---
>>>
>>> I would add my script to such a wiki page, if some else is willing
>>> to start such a page.
>>
>> <sarcasm >
>> such a script would indeed be much nicer than a well crafted
>> framework for the job.
>> </sarcasm>
>
> Indeed...
>
>>> If someone not @FreeBSD.org wants to maintain such a page, feel
>>> free to
>>> register in the wiki and tell me (or another committer), I will
>>> hand out
>>> write permission then.
>>
>> I hope people spend their time on thinking what was bad with the
>> sensor framework last time and improve on that, instead.
>
> Go and read in the archives about it, maybe you understand why
> there's not much motivation to spend spare time on such a topic.
Everyone should have the right to come back with a subject, if work is =20=
put into it. Or is the stanza that once there has been a heated =20
discussion about a topic, there is no possibility to come back to it, =20=
maybe making it better a seccond time? And no, I have no plans to do =20=
so... I am just a bit astonished about the attitude...
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