Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:02:01 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I guess power[1-*]_average would be OK?
> > 
> > AFAIK, yes.  It is probably not 100% in sync with the power supply class,
> > though.
> 
> Is the power supply class creating sysfs files? I see a number of
> attributes listed in Documentation/power_supply_class.txt, but they are
> all uppercase, which doesn't seem suitable for sysfs file names. That
> document also doesn't list the numbering convention when multiple
> channels are present.

Looks like power supply needs some tweaks, then.

> My main worry is that we will have to add support for power measurement
> in libsensors, and I would like it to be as easy as possible. Thus
> sticking to the same naming convention hwmon have been using for years
> appears to be the best solution.

Agreed.

> I see that the power supply class units are 10^-6 A and 10^-6 W, so if
> we are supposed to be compatible, I guess we'll have to use this too.

There was a good reason for that, and people who deal with small portables
said that they needed 10^-4 A or somesuch, at which point it makes more
sense to just go to 10^-6 already.  I don't recall why 10^-6 W, though.

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