The following reply was made to PR kern/36660; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
To: juan@xtrarom.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/36660: envsys sensor names are not unique
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:45:33 +0900 (JST)

 > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:10:03 +0000 (UTC)
 > yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
 > 
 > >  it should be unique enough so that an sensor can be specified
 > > unambiguously. isn't "envstat -s foo" ambiguous if there are two sensors
 > > called "foo" in a system, even if they belong to different devices?
 > 
 > It's unique enough already... please see latest code.
 
 you asked what i meant, so i explained.
 
 > And envstat requires to use -d with -s, so the restriction only needs
 > to be per device.
 
 really?  "envstat -s Temp" without -d seems working.
 
 > >  keeping user-defined descriptions in kernel is a bad idea in the first
 > > place. 
 > >  besides, because they are used as identifiers as well (it's a bad design
 > > IMO), changing them just for user's preference is rather confusing than
 > > useful. do you have a way to know what your sensor with name "foo"
 > > actually was? 
 > 
 > When the description is changed, edata->desc is also changed. I don't see
 > how you need to know its previous description.
 
 don't you agree that identifiers and descriptions should be separated?
 
 > You can find this sensor looking at its index (edata->sensor).
 
 is it usable with the new interface?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi
 
 > 
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