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

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/36660: envsys sensor names are not unique
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:51:21 +0200

 On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:45:33 +0900 (JST)
 yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
 
 > really?  "envstat -s Temp" without -d seems working.
 
 How is it that it works for you but not here?
 
 
 $ envstat -s "acpibat0 charge" -dacpibat0   
         acpibat0 charge:      0.663 Ah (16.92%) critical ( 2.50%)
 $ envstat -s "acpibat0 charge"            
 envstat: unknown sensor `acpibat0 charge'
 $
  
 And yes, the code checks if -s is used without -d.
 
 > don't you agree that identifiers and descriptions should be separated?
 
 I don't understand you, can you explain some more?
  
 > > You can find this sensor looking at its index (edata->sensor).
 > 
 > is it usable with the new interface?
 
 Of course it is. The code relies in sme_nsensors on many places to
 refresh sensor data, create and update the dictionaries, etc.
 
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