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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, cbou@mail.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVEL
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:31:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205203109.GA3889@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071212141256.6c290271@ephemeral>

On Wed 2007-12-12 14:12:56, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> The CAPACITY_LEVEL stuff defines various levels of charge; however, what
> is the difference between them?  What differentiates between HIGH and NORMAL,
> LOW and CRITICAL, etc?

On embedded hw, it is quite common that you can sense only 4-or-so
levels of battery charge, very non-linear. I suspect that's what capacity_level comes
from.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-12 19:12 [PATCH 1/2] power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVEL Andres Salomon
2007-12-05 20:31 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-12-12 19:51 ` Anton Vorontsov

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