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

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

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:22:25 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Well, if we need 10^-4 A, and we use voltages in the 1-2 V range
> (that's what CPU, AGP etc. use these days), then we obviously need
> 10^-4 W as well.

I see, and in that case it is safer to just go to 10^-6 for both.  It is more
future-proof.

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