Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:55:13 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver. |
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Hi!
> > > Hm. Again we have the question of whether to export 'threshold_pct' > > > vs.'threshold_abs', or whether to have a separate string property > > > which says what the 'unit' of the threshold is. I don't care much -- > > > I'll do whatever DavidZ prefers. > > > > Unit is easier to process in HAL in my opinion. > > What about just prepending the unit to the 'threshold' file? Then user > space can expect the contents of said file to be of the form "%d %s". I > don't think that violates the "only one value per file" sysfs mantra.
Bad idea... I bet someone will just ignore the units part, because all the machines he seen had mW there. Just put it into the name:
power_avg_mV
Pavel
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