Re: Proposal for reporting remote control button presses to userland

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 04:25:28PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
 > > > if we do use XML we should think hard about the actual data
 > > > returned -- envstat has far too much knowledge of what it's
 > > > seeing).
 > 
 > Why does envstat have lines like
 > 
 >      if (strcmp(sensor->type, "Fan") == 0) {
 >              stype = "RPM";  
 > 
 > Why does it need to know the units, hard-wired in, for every sensor
 > type?  Why does every sound card have its own set of names visible to
 > mixerctl?

Because we need schema definitions for these data streams, and we
don't have them. Nor do we (AFAIK) have a language or specification
format for proplib schemas.

(Well, we need more than schema definitions that merely exist; they
also need to be good schemas that have had some polishing. But having
schema definitions makes it practical to do that polishing.)

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost