Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVEL

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 09:39:51 EST


On Wed 2007-12-12 14:12:56, Andres Salomon wrote:
>
> The CAPACITY_LEVEL stuff defines various levels of charge; however, what
> is the difference between them? What differentiates between HIGH and NORMAL,
> LOW and CRITICAL, etc?

On embedded hw, it is quite common that you can sense only 4-or-so
levels of battery charge, very non-linear. I suspect that's what capacity_level comes
from.

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