Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:06:34 +0200 | From | "Shem Multinymous" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver. |
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On 10/31/06, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote: > > Well, we have to do *something* about those devices that don't have > > fixed units (see my mail to Greg from a few minutes ago), so which > > alternative do you prefer? > > How about converting on the fly ?
In the case at hand we have mWh and mAh, which measure different physical quantities. You can't convert between them unless you have intimate knowledge of the battery's chemistry and condition, which we don't.
And it would be nice to also allow for power supply devices that use other, incompatible units like "percent" or "minutes" or "hand crank revolutions".
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