From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI: battery: add power_{now, avg} properties to power_class Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:59:25 +0300 Message-ID: <49CE9DBD.90200@suse.de> References: <20090113235739.10548.20626.stgit@thinkpad> <4970E0B6.5070306@suse.de> <49BFB1CA.8050700@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from charybdis-ext.suse.de ([195.135.221.2]:37301 "EHLO emea5-mh.id5.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754932AbZC1V7R (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:59:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49BFB1CA.8050700@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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. >