Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

[Kyle Moffett]

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

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