Subject: Re: Envsys warnings
To: Matthew Fincham <matthewf@cat.co.za>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/21/2003 08:04:18
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:53:39AM +0200, Matthew Fincham wrote:

 > For example, I unplugged the CPU fan and saw 'fan 2' go from 4000 RPM to 0
 > RPM and 'Temp 1' started rising from 40 degrees (I left it till it was 70
 > degrees and then put the fan back on). Unfortunately, the driver didn't
 > appear to set any of the warning flags for these sensors. Does this make
 > sense? or should I manually set the limits in user space?

The intent is for all of the policy stuff regarding where warnings are
generated, etc. to be handled by a daemon running in userland which could
periodically get the sensor status and make decisions based on the values.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>