From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] Battery monitoring class
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:24:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412142430.GA31240@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412141505.GA25552@zarina>
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:15:05PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:08:18PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > ACPI batteries can report capacity and rate in either mA or mW. Given
>
> You sure, capacity in mA? Then I don't know. But you can safely
> fallback and create your own attribute (just as in David's battery class,
> where every battery required to create its own attributes), plus create
> capacity_units attribute. So, user space will know your driver's specific
> units.
Well, mAh, but yes. Clearly it's possible to add extra attributes, but
speccing standard attributes that don't entirely cover the most common
non-embedded battery class seems less than ideal. Why not just require
capacity_units and rate_units attributes?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 23:25 [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] Battery monitoring class Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-12 2:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-12 16:51 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-12 3:43 ` Greg KH
2007-04-12 12:25 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-12 13:43 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-12 13:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-04-12 14:15 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-12 14:24 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-04-12 14:36 ` [Kernel-discuss] " Paul Sokolovsky
2007-04-12 18:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-12 20:44 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-13 0:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-13 2:15 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-24 19:36 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-13 2:34 ` Shem Multinymous
2007-04-13 2:36 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-13 13:51 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-12 15:00 ` Shem Multinymous
2007-04-12 15:18 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-12 17:23 ` Shem Multinymous
2007-04-13 13:49 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-15 0:43 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-05-04 9:59 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-15 19:56 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-15 22:10 ` [Kernel-discuss] " Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-15 22:08 ` Ondrej Zajicek
2007-04-15 22:50 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-16 0:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-16 1:57 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-16 14:34 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-16 2:32 ` [Kernel-discuss] " ian
2007-04-16 3:12 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-16 8:28 ` ian
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