Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: battery: add power_{now, avg} properties to power_class

[Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>]

Hi Len,

Rafael: What I said is that it was too late to change the interpretation of
'current_now' in the case when energy units were used.

My patch does not change interpretation of 'current_now' in the case when energy units are used.
It only adds _new_ power_now and power_avg attributes in this case.

I hope it is clear now.

Regards,
Alex.

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Len Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>
>>> 2.6.30?
>>> or 2.6.31?
>>
>> Although we've had this patch in the test tree for a bit,
>> I don't think that any amount of aging in -next will help us here.
>>
>> Is it possible to put the add the new attribute immediately,
>> get buy-in from the user-space guys,
>> and then remove the old attribute in a subsequent patch?
> Actually this is what patch did -- it only mentioned feature removal.
> Attached is the patch with no mention of removal schedule at all.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> 
> Regards,
> Alex.
>