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
next prev parent 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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