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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:40:49 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Better battery info/status files
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Hi!

> > This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply.
> 
> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
> 
> Power meter applets will be eternally buggy if you force them
> to deal with units that change. In fact there is no reason to
> print the units if you always use the fundamental units.

Problem is that _hardware_ wants to talk us two different units.

Sometimes it wants to tell us watts.

Sometimes hw wants to tell us volts and ampers.

I believe kernel should not do any translation. [It is _not_ trivial
-- if battery voltage changes with time.]
								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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