From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: U Kuehn <ukuehn@acm.org>,
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>,
David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>,
Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, len.brown@intel.com,
benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:02:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061105220248.4f495ca7.khali@linux-fr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061105205218.GB1847@elf.ucw.cz>
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:52:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2006-11-03 14:12:22, U Kuehn wrote:
> > That very much depends on the system. Having a laptop where the current
> > power consumption is around 10 Watts (or, at about 10 to 12 Volts,
> > nearly 1 A), having a resolution of 10 or even 100 mA would be OK.
> > However, on your cellphone with a standby consumption of 2mA, such a
> > resolution would be meaningless. What kind of resultion does the
> > hardware usually support?
>
> I do not know details. Siemens phones have current monitors, but I do
> not recall how accurate those are. Anyway, at least for some
> applications mA is not enough, so we probably should use finer
> unit. Or use ampers and let kernel be "as precise as it needs" in
> simulated floating point.
No. Fixed point, please. Use µA as the unit if needed.
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-05 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1161628327.19446.391.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
2006-10-23 19:18 ` Battery class driver Dan Williams
2006-10-23 19:58 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-23 20:10 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-23 20:48 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24 3:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24 17:18 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-25 7:42 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 9:54 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 12:11 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 14:42 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 22:25 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 23:39 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-28 12:15 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-28 13:22 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-28 14:34 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-28 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-28 14:55 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 18:52 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 19:48 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 21:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 15:09 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 15:31 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 18:12 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-31 7:49 ` Greg KH
2006-10-31 13:28 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 19:31 ` Greg KH
2006-11-01 19:53 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 20:53 ` Greg KH
2006-11-01 23:55 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-02 3:45 ` Greg KH
2006-11-02 17:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-02 19:19 ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-02 21:20 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-03 12:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-03 15:13 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-11-02 22:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-03 13:12 ` U Kuehn
2006-11-05 20:52 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-05 21:02 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2006-11-01 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-01 21:32 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-31 7:59 ` Jean Delvare
2006-10-31 13:42 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-31 13:51 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-10-31 14:06 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 13:26 ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-01 13:54 ` David Woodhouse
2006-11-01 14:36 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-01 16:36 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-11-01 16:55 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-01 19:30 ` Greg KH
2006-11-02 7:52 ` Jean Delvare
2006-11-02 8:39 ` Richard Hughes
2006-11-02 13:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-02 17:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-02 19:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-11-03 13:23 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-03 14:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2006-11-03 16:10 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-10-28 18:55 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 19:53 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-28 21:05 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-28 21:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-10-26 9:55 ` [ltp] " FeRD
2006-10-28 5:12 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-24 3:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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