Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

From: David Zeuthen
Date: Sat Oct 28 2006 - 15:54:44 EST


On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 18:55 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Bad idea... I bet someone will just ignore the units part, because all
> the machines he seen had mW there.

Sure, user space can do silly things. Just ask davej. Let's try to
assume they don't.

> Just put it into the name:
>
> power_avg_mV

Bad idea... it means user space will have to try to open different files
and what happens when someone introduces a new unit? Ideally I'd like
the unit to be part of the payload of the sysfs file. Second to that I
think having the unit in a separate file is preferable.

David


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