Re: [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] Battery monitoring class

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:25:03AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> + * All voltages, currents, capacities and temperatures in mV, mA, mAh and
> + * tenths of a degree unless otherwise stated. It's driver's job to convert
> + * its raw values to which this class operates. If for some reason driver
> + * can't afford this requirement, then it have to create its own attributes,
> + * plus additional "XYZ_units" for each of them.

ACPI batteries can report capacity and rate in either mA or mW. Given 
the lack of a constant voltage, how do you accurately convert between 
the two? Right now, I think this is a loss of functionality over the 
current situation.

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