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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v01 1/3] PowerCap: Documentation
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:09:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130805130958.33da86c3@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375466932-11842-2-git-send-email-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

On Fri,  2 Aug 2013 11:08:50 -0700
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> +power_uw (rw): Current power counter in micro-watts. Write to this counter
> +resets the counter to zero. If the counter can not be reset, then this attribute
> +is read-only.

Sorry if I'm slow, but... power is an instantaneous quantity, so why would
you use a counter for it?  And why would you want to reset it to zero?

Thanks,

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02 18:08 [RFC v01 0/3] Power Capping Framework Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-02 18:08 ` [RFC v01 1/3] PowerCap: Documentation Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-03  0:10   ` Joe Perches
2013-08-03  0:23     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-03  0:25       ` Joe Perches
2013-08-05 19:09   ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2013-08-05 19:52     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-02 18:08 ` [RFC v01 2/3] PowerCap: Add class driver Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-02 22:43   ` Joe Perches
2013-08-03  0:06     ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-02 18:08 ` [RFC v01 3/3] PowerCap: Added to drivers build Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-02 22:29 ` [RFC v01 0/3] Power Capping Framework Greg KH
2013-08-02 23:52   ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-03  0:53     ` Greg KH
2013-08-04 19:36       ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-08-02 22:30 ` Greg KH
2013-08-02 22:33   ` Joe Perches
2013-08-02 22:50     ` Greg KH
2013-08-03  0:03   ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2013-08-03  0:54     ` Greg KH

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