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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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