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28.Dd August 19, 2007
29.Dt SENSOR_ATTACH 9
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm sensor_attach ,
33.Nm sensor_detach ,
34.Nm sensordev_install ,
35.Nm sensordev_deinstall ,
36.Nm sensor_task_register ,
37.Nm sensor_task_unregister
38.Nd sensors framework
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In sys/time.h
41.In sys/sensors.h
42.Ft void
43.Fn "sensordev_install" "struct ksensordev *sensdev"
44.Ft void
45.Fn "sensordev_deinstall" "struct ksensordev *sensdev"
46.Ft void
47.Fn "sensor_attach" "struct ksensordev *sensdev" "struct ksensor *sens"
48.Ft void
49.Fn "sensor_detach" "struct ksensordev *sensdev" "struct ksensor *sens"
50.Ft int
51.Fn "sensor_task_register" "void *arg" "void (*func)(void *)" "int period"
52.Ft void
53.Fn "sensor_task_unregister" "void *arg"
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56sensors
57framework API provides a mechanism for manipulation of hardware sensors
58that are available under the
59.Va hw.sensors
60.Xr sysctl 8
61tree.
62.Pp
63The
64.Fn sensor_attach
65function adds the sensor specified by the
66.Fa sens
67argument to the sensor device specified by the
68.Fa sensdev
69argument.
70The
71.Fn sensor_detach
72function can be used to remove sensors previously added by
73.Fn sensor_attach .
74.Pp
75The
76.Fn sensordev_install
77function registers the sensor device specified by the
78.Fa sensdev
79argument so that all sensors that are attached to the device become
80accessible via the sysctl interface.
81The
82.Fn sensordev_deinstall
83function can be used to remove sensor devices previously registered by
84.Fn sensordev_install .
85.Pp
86Drivers are responsible for retrieving, interpreting and normalising
87sensor values and updating the sensor struct periodically.
88If the driver needs process context, for example to sleep, it can
89register a task with the sensor framework.
90.Pp
91The
92.Fn sensor_task_register
93function is used to register a periodic task to update sensors.
94The
95.Fa func
96argument is a pointer to the function to run with an interval of
97.Fa period
98seconds.
99The
100.Fa arg
101parameter is the argument given to the
102.Fa func
103function.
104The
105.Fn sensor_task_unregister
106function removes all tasks previously registered with
107.Fn sensor_task_register
108with an argument of
109.Fa arg .
110.Sh COMPATIBILITY
111.Ss sensor_task
112The
113.Fn sensor_task_register
114and
115.Fn sensor_task_unregister
116functions that are included in
117.Ox 4.2
118and later
119are not compatible with
120.Dx .
121.Dx
122includes an implementation that is similar and compatible
123with an earlier version of
124these
125.Fn sensor_task
126functions that was available from
127.Ox 3.9
128until
129.Ox 4.1 .
130.Pp
131Drivers that only call
132.Fn sensor_task_register
133and do not check its return value are not affected by this
134.Fn sensor_task
135compatibility notice.
136.Sh SEE ALSO
137.Xr systat 1 ,
138.Xr sysctl 3 ,
139.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
140.Xr sysctl 8
141.Sh HISTORY
142The sensor framework was written by
143.An Alexander Yurchenko Aq grange@openbsd.org
144and first appeared in
145.Ox 3.4 .
146.An David Gwynne Aq dlg@openbsd.org
147later extended it for
148.Ox 3.8 .
149.An Constantine A. Murenin Aq cnst+openbsd@bugmail.mojo.ru
150extended it even further by introducing the concept of sensor devices in
151.Ox 4.1 .
152.Pp
153The framework was ported to
154.Fx
155by
156.An Constantine A. Murenin
157as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project.
158