On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:04:20PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

 > Personally, I think they should all provide a pseudo-device "env".
 > 
 > It's just plain STUPID that I have to start envstat with an argument
 > telling it *which* environmental source to use when I've yet to see a
 > machine with more than one -- but there's no way for it to *find* which
 > environmental devices are available, either.

I wholeheartedly agree!  Or, perhaps, what we need is a "backplane" device
that can handle such environment sensors and also a watchdog timer abstraction,
and still allow a device to be specified for e.g. SCSI enclosures (which you
may not want to report along with everything else).

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