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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:20:45 +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:  <52116.1192652445@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:08:05 MST." <47166BA5.1000100@elischer.org> 

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In message <47166BA5.1000100@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>> Having a userland 
>> interface also makes it easier to have backends that are entirely in 
>> userland.
>>
>maybe a loopback filesystem

Just what is it that is so enticing about the kernel ?  Why not simply
pass it to a daemon ?

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