From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] v1 of IBM power meter driver
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:50:29 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070828015029.GA10107@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070827211446.GG32667@tree.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> documentation doesn't mention any naming conventions for sensors that
> measure Watts, so I am proposing that they be called "powerX_input" in a
> fashion similar to temperature/rpm/current sensors. If that is
> agreeable to everyone, I'll post a follow-up patch to amend the
> documentation.
What unit should we use? Watts are way, way too big as there is no
floating/fixed point in sysfs. 10^-6 W is probably what is called for,
since we already need 10^-3 V and 10^-3 A. Small portable devices can
easily draw less than 10^-3 W nowadays.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-28 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-27 21:14 Darrick J. Wong
2007-08-28 1:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2007-08-28 11:19 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2007-08-28 16:28 ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-08-29 9:49 ` Jean Delvare
2007-08-29 12:45 ` Frank Phillips
2007-08-28 16:44 ` [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface Darrick J. Wong
2007-08-29 9:10 ` Jean Delvare
2007-08-29 14:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-08-30 9:57 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-11 16:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-09-01 17:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-01 18:05 ` Shem Multinymous
2007-09-01 19:44 ` [lm-sensors] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-02 19:38 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-03 2:02 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-03 16:06 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-03 23:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-06 9:34 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-06 16:29 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-08-28 16:49 ` [PATCH] v2 of IBM power meter driver Darrick J. Wong
2007-08-28 23:25 ` [PATCH] v3 " Darrick J. Wong
2007-09-11 13:23 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-09-11 13:59 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-12 1:11 ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-09-14 19:29 ` [PATCH v2] hwmon: Update Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface Darrick J. Wong
2007-09-17 17:28 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-17 18:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-09-21 8:43 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-14 19:33 ` [PATCH v4] IBM power meter driver Darrick J. Wong
2007-10-09 12:00 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-10-09 16:44 ` Roel Kluin
2007-10-09 20:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2007-10-09 22:08 ` [PATCH] ibmpex: Release IPMI user if hwmon registration fails Darrick J. Wong
2007-10-11 11:45 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-10-13 0:29 ` [PATCH v4] IBM power meter driver Darrick J. Wong
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