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

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:

> +What:	current_{now,avg} attributes for batteries, reporting in energy units
> +When:	2.6.29
> +Why:	Batteries, reporting in energy units, will report (dis)charge rate as
> +	power (Watts), and not as current (Amperes), thus new power_{now,avg}
> +	attributes should be used for such batteries to avoid the confusion.
> +Who:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>

I think that a single kernel release cycle is too quick
for a user/kernel API change  unless you're trying to fix
something that is new and you have a pretty good idea
that nobody is using it yet.  Kernel programmers typically
want to talk about O(6 months) and Linus comes back and
talks aboutg O(10 years)...

-- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center