Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:40:49 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Better battery info/status files |
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Hi!
> > This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. > > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > Power meter applets will be eternally buggy if you force them > to deal with units that change. In fact there is no reason to > print the units if you always use the fundamental units.
Problem is that _hardware_ wants to talk us two different units.
Sometimes it wants to tell us watts.
Sometimes hw wants to tell us volts and ampers.
I believe kernel should not do any translation. [It is _not_ trivial -- if battery voltage changes with time.] Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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