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 20:47:04 +0900 (JST)

 > > don't you agree that identifiers and descriptions should be separated?
 > 
 > I don't understand you, can you explain some more?
 
 i don't want to use a user-defined random string to specify a sensor.
 
 > > > 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.
 
 in kernel, you mean?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi