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From: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define sysfs interfaces for ibmaem driver
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F141C8.50401@felter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080329145603.7e47418f@hyperion.delvare>

Jean Delvare wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:36:46 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

>> +energy[1-*]_input		Instantaneous energy use
> 
> This doesn't make sense to me. Energy is a quantity, it exists
> independently of time. An "instantaneous energy use" only makes sense
> if you tell in what (presumably very small) amount of time the energy
> was used... and then what you are measuring is not an energy but a
> power, for which we already have an interface. Please clarify.

I agree. May I suggest "cumulative energy use"?

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 21:36 [PATCH 1/2] Define sysfs interfaces for ibmaem driver Darrick J. Wong
2008-03-29 13:56 ` Jean Delvare
2008-03-31 19:55   ` Wes Felter [this message]
2008-03-31 21:01   ` Darrick J. Wong
2008-04-01  8:22     ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-01  8:47       ` Darrick J. Wong

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