From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 11 12:44:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0C016A400; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:44:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77B913C48A; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:44:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A55763.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.87.99]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F83F2E29D; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:44:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2395B4902; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:42:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l6BCgfJk086578; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:42:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:42:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20070711144240.a3gdtxjvqcwkg4o4@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:42:40 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <56438.1184156869@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <56438.1184156869@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-12.8, required 8, BAYES_00 -15.00, DKIM_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, IMPRONONCABLE_2 1.50, J_CHICKENPOX_27 0.60, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Rui Paulo , Shteryana Shopova , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson , "Constantine A. Murenin" Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:44:56 -0000 Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp (from Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:27:49 +0000): > In message <20070711134959.2q3akd4zk0o8404c@webmail.leidinger.net>, > Alexander Leidinger writes: > >> What Poul-Henning is talking about looks to me like a presentation >> layer, while I see the sensors framework (as far as I understand it) >> as an infrastructure layer. > > I think you will only confuse things by adopting the seven layer OSI > mistake: the communications aspect of this is absolutely trivial. I was not thinking about 7-layer-OSI, I was thinking about 3 layers: presentation, infrastructure and "low-level" data acquiring stuff (I prefer the pragmatic way of looking at things). Bye, Alexander. -- The wonderful thing about a dancing bear is not how well he dances, but that he dances at all. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137