Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: API for environmental sensors
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/10/1999 02:07:24
Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>  wrote:
 > > ENVSYS API 1.0
 > 
 > Looking over the API, I'm struck some at how this is in some ways
 > similar to the audio devices in that we want to describe a fairly
 > wide variety of similar things (i.e., fan speed, temperature, current,
 > voltage, etc.) for some set of hardware (perhaps a CPU and CPU fan,
 > perhaps 12 fans + 5 power supplies + 4 CPUs&fans + AGP fan, etc.).

I'm also interested in this sort of interface as I'm presently engaged
in designing in this and additional environmental sensoring in a next-rev
of a product we designed. :-)

Having the ability to accomodate other A/D type interfaces would be
a major plus...   Of course, I haven't read the API proposal so I
can be convinced to shut up. :-)