Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> writes:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > It would be possible to make it use the current interface to tell
> > userland the temperature. However, the "tell the user the temperature"
> > part of the Thermal Zone stuff is the smallest part of it -- like the
> > paint on a car vs. the rest of the car. The parts that are actually
> > important deal with doing things like keeping your system from
> > melting.
> 
> Well, I presumed there would be some userland daemon to actually
> take care of taking steps to avoid system meltdown, and the
> daemon would somehow need to know current values.

That doesn't seem like a good idea. I hate the fact that your machine
can melt because your OS does something wrong -- having the system
depend on a daemon being up to avoid melting seems really, really bad.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com