Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:16:42 -0400 (EDT) From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware monitor device drivers / kernel support (eg. LM78) Message-ID: <199806032116.RAA19994@brain.zeus.leitch.com> In-Reply-To: Ty Sarna's message of "Wed, June 3, 1998 15:59:49 -0500" regarding "Re: hardware monitor device drivers / kernel support (eg. LM78)" id <199806032059.PAA02826@fezzik.endicor.com> References: <199806031952.PAA19479@brain.zeus.leitch.com> <199806032059.PAA02826@fezzik.endicor.com>
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[ On Wed, June 3, 1998 at 15:59:49 (-0500), Ty Sarna wrote: ] > Subject: Re: hardware monitor device drivers / kernel support (eg. LM78) > > This is the problem with sysctl: it really wants to be a filesystem, > IMO, but there is sufficient political opposition I don't think it'll > happen. > > In more detail: sysctl really wants to deal with named rather than > numbered things, and wants to do that with more dynamicism than the > current sysctl offers. We already have a resonably good system for > managing a hierarchichal, named system of things, which can change at > run time (namely, files). I don't see why it wouldn't be in the best > UN*X traditions to use that existing subsystem for sysctls. But the > wrong people do :-( I agree 101% with your analysis. Well, let's put it this way: If nobody comes up with something entirely different and better and provided I don't run into any snags that'll eat up my allocated project time, I'm going to do both because *I* want to use a kernfs interface, but I'll do at least the kernel side of a sysctl extension just to keep those that don't like kernfs happy and I do want to get the result into the common code base of all the *BSDs so that someone else can support all the other weird and wonderful motherboards and chips available now and in the future (because I won't likely do so, at least not as a volunteer project). -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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