Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:38:37 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
       "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to
 Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 16:44:17 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> > > Should we add power?_10sec_avg_input? IIRC thinkpads export that,
> > > too.
> 
> I'd say it is enough to know it is an average, you don't need to specify HOW
> it is averaged.

Agreed.

> But there is a real need to export both instantaneous and averaged values in
> power supplies/power sources, so we should have a standard way to do so in
> hwmon, and power_supply class should use it (or the opposite, it doesn't
> matter, as long as everyone does it the same way).

I guess power[1-*]_average would be OK?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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