Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 01:15:11 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, Shteryana Shopova <syrinx@FreeBSD.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD (was: Re: PERFORCE change 123040 for review) Message-ID: <20070708081511.GX1221@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <46904153.7040909@FreeBSD.org> References: <200707062345.l66Njpx3091970@repoman.freebsd.org> <468ED66E.5080400@fnop.net> <468F517D.3010709@freebsd.org> <46904153.7040909@FreeBSD.org>
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Constantine A. Murenin wrote this message on Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 21:43 -0400:
> Hardware sensors tree is going to be pretty deep down. Under sysctl(8)
> the variable names will look like this:
>
> hw.sensors.lm0.temp0
>
> whereas in reality, the tree has five levels:
>
> hw.sensors.lm0.temp.0
I'm curious, why do we want/need these in the kernel as opposed to a
userland library/utility to provide this info?
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