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Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD 
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In message <20070711190546.4b202080@deskjail>, Alexander Leidinger writes:
>Quoting "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> (Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:54:40 +0000):

>You are focusing on physical devices which are specially build as a
>sensor for some specific stuff. I put my focus on the kernel framework
>which allows to unify the handling of sensoric data from kernel
>devices.

I'm trying to point out that your kernel framework belongs in userland.

There is no benefit from having it in the kernel.

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