Re: Sensors and bioctl

[Jim Razmus]

* Gaby vanhegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060614 12:52]:
 Just an idle thought: are there any plans to put information from  
 bioctl into some sensors that would be accessible by sysctl -a?  It's  
 (marginally) easier to parse information from the sysctl output than  
 from bioctl itself.
 
 Gaby
 
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Already in the tree for 4.0.  A recent Undeadly article talked about it
and linked the commit messages.

Jim

Re: Sensors and bioctl

[Theo de Raadt]

 Just an idle thought: are there any plans to put information from  
 bioctl into some sensors that would be accessible by sysctl -a?  It's  
 (marginally) easier to parse information from the sysctl output than  
 from bioctl itself.

In -current you get this:

hw.sensors.69=sd0, ami0 0, drive online, OK
hw.sensors.70=sd1, ami0 1, drive online, OK

That is all that needs to be there.  The idea is as follows:

We will put enough sensor data there so that a sensor application
can tell if something is ok or not, but then other tools must be
used to get further information.