From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mschwid2@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:15:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061109231533.GE2616@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061108175412.3c2be30c.holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Hi!
> What about the following ...
Looks good to me.
> +> ls /sys/kernel/debug/sysinfo
> +free_mem_KiB
> +online_time_ms
> +cpu_time_us
> +
> +> cat /sys/kernel/debug/free_mem_KiB
> +147536
Someone had idea of free_mem:KiB ... which is quite neat.
Anyway, Greg's opinion was that we should just document units in
documentation and not pollute names with that. I'm not sure if it
works for battery (because of current:mA vs. current:mW confusion).
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-09 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 16:54 Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 17:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-11-08 18:27 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-10 6:53 ` Greg KH
2006-11-10 10:03 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-13 17:16 ` Greg KH
2006-11-13 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 17:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-14 8:50 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 17:09 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-08 18:32 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 18:01 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-08 18:37 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 19:59 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-09 23:15 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-11-10 13:18 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-11-10 15:41 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-11-13 4:33 ` Kyle Moffett
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-23 12:32 Michael Holzheu
2006-10-23 19:03 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-10-24 14:15 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-10-24 20:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-28 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
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