Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:02:48 +0100
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: U Kuehn <ukuehn@acm.org>, linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org,
       Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>,
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       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@laptop.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
       len.brown@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:52:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2006-11-03 14:12:22, U Kuehn wrote:
> > That very much depends on the system. Having a laptop where the current
> > power consumption is around 10 Watts (or, at about 10 to 12 Volts,
> > nearly 1 A), having a resolution of 10 or even 100 mA would be OK.
> > However, on your cellphone with a standby consumption of 2mA, such a
> > resolution would be meaningless. What kind of resultion does the
> > hardware usually support?
> 
> I do not know details. Siemens phones have current monitors, but I do
> not recall how accurate those are. Anyway, at least for some
> applications mA is not enough, so we probably should use finer
> unit. Or use ampers and let kernel be "as precise as it needs" in
> simulated floating point.

No. Fixed point, please. Use ?A as the unit if needed.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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