From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Dec  8 11:03:47 2010
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6151065695;
	Wed,  8 Dec 2010 11:03:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no)
Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8FB8FC21;
	Wed,  8 Dec 2010 11:03:46 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2])
	by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397101FFC33;
	Wed,  8 Dec 2010 11:03:46 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001)
	id 191088452F; Wed,  8 Dec 2010 12:03:46 +0100 (CET)
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikNJ29AcE1fBXqq_atUU8PQBz9VUos0V+wBFQJs@mail.gmail.com>
	<86r5dsq5oc.fsf@ds4.des.no>
	<20101208045823.GB35615@mark-desktop-bsd.mark-home>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:03:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20101208045823.GB35615@mark-desktop-bsd.mark-home> (Mark
	Johnston's message of "Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:58:23 -0500")
Message-ID: <86ipz4plv2.fsf@ds4.des.no>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Cc: mdf@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: coretemp(4)/amdtemp(4) and sysctl nodes
X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD
	<freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>,
	<mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:03:47 -0000

Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com> writes:
> Aren't the dev.cpu.X and the coretemp sysctls matched up by the use of
>
> SYSCTL_CHILDREN(device_get_sysctl_tree(pdev))
>
> in coretemp's sysctl definition? What does the sysctl context have to do
> with identifying the parent oid?

They're intended to go hand in hand.  I would have preferred that
contexts were actually tied to subtrees, but I had to play the ball I
was given.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no