Subject: Re: Making a common API for cpu frequency drivers
To: Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/02/2006 01:15:04
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 03:01:20PM -0700, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > OTOH, we also have sysmon(4), used by envsys(8), powerd(8) and
> > wdogctl(8).  [....]
>=20
> I don't mean this as a troll, but where's the documentation for
> sysmon(4)? The fine manpage sysmon(4) doesn't exist, and envsys(4)
> says "This API is experimental and may be deprecated at any time".
> and "This entire API should be replaced by a sysctl(8) interface
> or a kernel events mechanism, should one be developed."
>=20
> So, er, is envsys/sysmon really suitable as a basis for layering
> other subsystems?

The ENVSYS part is...  not bright.  I think that sysmon is worth
refactoring and extending, though.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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