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Subject: Re: aibs(4): ASUSTeK AI Booster (ACPI ATK0110) Hardware Monitor
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In message: <DE573364-A7A7-4805-BCBC-665AE0E13BA6@freebsd.org>
            Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> writes:
: Hi,
: 
: On 5 Apr 2010, at 06:59, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
: 
: > Dear freebsd-{acpi,drivers,hardware}@, 
: > 
: > Attached patch provides support for the hardware monitoring capabilities that are present in many modern desktop motherboards from ASUS featuring the ATK0110 ACPI device. 
: > 
: > This driver, aibs(4), is a fresh replacement for FreeBSD's existing acpi_aiboost(4).  The new aibs(4) driver has the following advantages when compared to the old acpi_aiboost(4): 
: > * the sensors are now provided through the user-serviceable hw.acpi.aibs0  tree (with a subtree for each sensor type), instead of the Newbus-internal  dev.acpi_aiboost.0 tree that contains various nonprime data at the same  level as the actual sensors 
: 
: I was under the impression that this the right way in FreeBSD.

To be clear, this is a regression.  They should be through the dev
tree.  We've been migrating exposed functionality from the hw. tree to
the dev. tree for quite some time now.  hw. isn't any more
user-serviceable than dev. is.

Warner