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> healthd works fine on systems that use supported monitoring chips.
> Unfortunately the number of chips that healthd supports is pretty small
> compared to monitoring tools on other platforms, e.g. Motherboard Monitor on
> Windows or LM Sensors on Linux.

Which says to me that the interface should be abstracted out.
Something like a device driver that presents a /dev device that
you can read or ioctl to get the information in a somewhat chip-
independent fashion.

--lyndon

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