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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:17:17 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, "Constantine A. Murenin" <cnst@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sensors fun.. 
Message-ID:  <54088.1192684637@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:20:26 MST." <4716B4DA.9090603@elischer.org> 

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In message <4716B4DA.9090603@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>On the other hand some sensors may be best reachable from the kernel
>(e.g. being integrated with some other device).
>so an approach that allows both would be the best.

Stuff that enables userland programs to talk to such devices are
called "device drivers" :-)

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