Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:02:48 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [ltp] Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver. |
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:52:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Fri 2006-11-03 14:12:22, U Kuehn wrote: > > That very much depends on the system. Having a laptop where the current > > power consumption is around 10 Watts (or, at about 10 to 12 Volts, > > nearly 1 A), having a resolution of 10 or even 100 mA would be OK. > > However, on your cellphone with a standby consumption of 2mA, such a > > resolution would be meaningless. What kind of resultion does the > > hardware usually support? > > I do not know details. Siemens phones have current monitors, but I do > not recall how accurate those are. Anyway, at least for some > applications mA is not enough, so we probably should use finer > unit. Or use ampers and let kernel be "as precise as it needs" in > simulated floating point.
No. Fixed point, please. Use µA as the unit if needed.
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