Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:17:17 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sensors fun.. Message-ID: <54088.1192684637@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:20:26 MST." <4716B4DA.9090603@elischer.org>
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In message <4716B4DA.9090603@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >On the other hand some sensors may be best reachable from the kernel >(e.g. being integrated with some other device). >so an approach that allows both would be the best. Stuff that enables userland programs to talk to such devices are called "device drivers" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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