Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-01T19:44:34Z

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> > Should we add power?_10sec_avg_input? IIRC thinkpads export that,
> > too.

I'd say it is enough to know it is an average, you don't need to specify HOW
it is averaged.

But there is a real need to export both instantaneous and averaged values in
power supplies/power sources, so we should have a standard way to do so in
hwmon, and power_supply class should use it (or the opposite, it doesn't
matter, as long as everyone does it the same way).

> It would be nice if the power meter interface uses the same
> conventions as the power supply interface, since the former is
> essentially a subset of the latter. Userspace app that read power
> meters via sysfs should work for power supplies too.

Agreed.

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