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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
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Subject: Re: sensors fun..
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:20:45PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <47166BA5.1000100@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
> 
> >> Having a userland 
> >> interface also makes it easier to have backends that are entirely in 
> >> userland.
> >>
> >maybe a loopback filesystem
> 
> Just what is it that is so enticing about the kernel ?  Why not simply
> pass it to a daemon ?

What about DEVFS idea like /dev/sensors/* ?
Sensors _are_ devices, not sysctls.

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