From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754651Ab3HETKB (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:10:01 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:39256 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754595Ab3HETKA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:10:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:09:58 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Srinivas Pandruvada Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC v01 1/3] PowerCap: Documentation Message-ID: <20130805130958.33da86c3@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1375466932-11842-2-git-send-email-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> References: <1375466932-11842-1-git-send-email-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> <1375466932-11842-2-git-send-email-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:08:50 -0700 Srinivas Pandruvada 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