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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] power_supply: Introduce generic psy charging driver
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> > 30*HZ means 30 seconds in the kernel... what is hard to understand
>> > about it?
>>
>> Well I might be picky, but since it is a charging algorithm dealing with
>> ampères, volts, constant-current/constant-voltage, watchdogs and
>> timeouts, all stated in SI units, it would be nice if all such constants
>> were specified in simple units instead of kernel-specific terms.
>
> I agree HZ is badly named, but hopefully anyone working on kernel is
> already familiar with it.
>
> But... what would actually help: I believe we should introduce
> milivolt_t, miliamp_t, milisec_t etc... types. Storing milivolts in
> int, then having comment saying "milivolts" is just wrong.

Hm! I bet the regulator subsystem maintainers have opinions
on that.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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