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From: "Richard A. Smith" <richard@laptop.org>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	cbou@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power_supply: add CHARGE_COUNTER property and olpc_battery support for it
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:20:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4829A39F.7050308@laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080512214629.443a5999@ephemeral>

Andres Salomon wrote:

> +		ec_word = be16_to_cpu(ec_word);
> +		val->intval = ec_word * 4167 / 10;

Whats wrong with:

 > +		val->intval = ((int)ec_word) * 6250 / 15;

Which does not have overflow problems and keeps more precision.

-- 
Richard Smith  <richard@laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-08  4:34 [PATCH] power_supply: support CHARGE_NOW in OLPC battery Andres Salomon
2008-05-08 10:51 ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-08 17:01   ` Andres Salomon
2008-05-08 17:13     ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-08 18:53       ` Richard A. Smith
2008-05-08 19:36         ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-08 20:44           ` Richard A. Smith
2008-05-13  1:46             ` [PATCH] power_supply: add CHARGE_COUNTER property and olpc_battery support for it Andres Salomon
2008-05-13  8:42               ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-13 14:20               ` Richard A. Smith [this message]
2008-05-13 16:23                 ` Andres Salomon
2008-05-18 21:46                   ` Anton Vorontsov

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