Re: Questions regarding acpi_tz(4)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:31:45AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > 1. In addition to setting the sensor's state, the driver reports state
> >    changes via aprint_normal_dev().  There was some discussion a while
> >    ago about "chatty" (or "noisy") sensor reports, so I was wondering
> >    if we really should report the sensor state both via sysmon_envsys(9)
> >    _and_ aprint_normal_dev().  Shouldn't the aprint_normal_dev() calls
> >    be removed, or at the very least replaced with aprint_debug_dev() ??
>
> As long as you get a dmesg and console entry for the critical-over case,
> I don't care where it gets handled. So envsys would be prefered for
> this.

You won't get a dmesg unless we leave the aprint_*() calls.  Normally, 
you only get syslog/console messages from sysmon_envsys when a monitored 
sensor generates an event.


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