Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:51:10 +0200 From: Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: cnst@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, rwatson@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, imp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sensors framework continued (architecture) Message-ID: <200711091851.19445.qpadla@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071109124421.3c1901b1@deskjail>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 09 November 2007 13:44:21 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Robert thinks that sysctl MIBs offer "a more semantically rich and, to > be honest, better defined way of interacting with live subsystems than > device files do in a generic sense". Nobody objected to this opinion or > provided reasons why a fd based approach is better than a sysctl MIB > based approach. Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez points out > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3433.txt (RFC for sensor MIBs). I think a MIB approach is much more usefull between "Single-system sensors framework" and "Group-level sensors framework" and a good example here is a SNMP(the general usage example of the MIB defined in rfc3433). I am not a kernel developer and don't know whether it's a good for pass the data or not, but as experienced administrator should mansion that sysctl mib's is expected (IMHO) to be used as a configuration interface to define a kernel and system behavior. It's much more easy to use userland utilities such as vmstat, systat, netstat, sockstat than listing some stats and data via sysctl. Also i suspect that such complex and rich thing as sensors framework often would be a subject to various changes and extensions, so i vote to hide kernel part as much as possible. -- ====================================================================== - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<----------------------------------- ====================================================================== [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHNJAH/2R6KvEYGaIRAgkhAJ44iVEo9wz2IpZiZ3wlacG/iqifBwCfaEkn /6NDikrU+K+mbEd7WeAwVX8= =vPmq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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