From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>,
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mschwid2@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:18:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6F3F24CD-2893-43E2-A006-F809E35607AE@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061109231533.GE2616@elf.ucw.cz>
On Nov 09, 2006, at 18:15:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Anyway, Greg's opinion was that we should just document units in
> documentation and not pollute names with that. I'm not sure if it
> works for battery (because of current:mA vs. current:mW confusion).
Well, IMO you should never have "current:mW" in any form whatsoever
anyways. Electrically it makes no sense; it's like saying
"height:grams". Watts are an indication of power emitted or consumed
per unit time (as opposed to current/amperage which counts only the
number of electrons and not the change in energy), so perhaps
"power_flow:mW" or "power_consumption:mW" would make more sense?
I can conceivably see a need for a "current:mJ_per_s" versus
"current:mW" depending on the hardware-reported units, but never both
at the same time.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 16:54 Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 17:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-11-08 18:27 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-10 6:53 ` Greg KH
2006-11-10 10:03 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-13 17:16 ` Greg KH
2006-11-13 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-13 17:46 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-14 8:50 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 17:09 ` Jörn Engel
2006-11-08 18:32 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 18:01 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-08 18:37 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-11-08 19:59 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-11-09 23:15 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-10 13:18 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2006-11-10 15:41 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-11-13 4:33 ` Kyle Moffett
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-23 12:32 Michael Holzheu
2006-10-23 19:03 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-10-24 14:15 ` Michael Holzheu
2006-10-24 20:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-28 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
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