Re: Porting OpenBSD's sysctl hw.sensors framework to FreeBSD

Constantine A. Murenin wrote this message on Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 20:13 -0400:
If you want to have no such framework that could potentially diagnose or
predict system failure, it's your choice, and I'm not going to argue
against it. However, there are many people who desire to have this
feature in an operating system, and these people include FreeBSD users
and developers.

No one is saying that we don't want a framekwork to provide this
information... We want to put the framework in the proper place that
will be the most maintainable, testable and extensible location possible:
userland... A single bug in the kernel framework and associated drivers
could take the entire system down... The worse a userland app can do
is core dump...

Having recently written an HDTV driver... It was a god-send to have
the tuner logic and related items in userland, and only use the kernel
part as a bit mover.. It made testing very quick, and will enable
people to develope additional tuners w/o having to go through crashing
their machine as they load/unload drivers that contain bugs..

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