Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756472AbXIFJcy (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:32:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752259AbXIFJcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:32:47 -0400 Received: from smtp-104-thursday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.104]:1233 "EHLO mallaury.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751884AbXIFJcq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:32:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:34:29 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek , "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface Message-ID: <20070906113429.1c88c844@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20070903232225.GD3899@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20070827211446.GG32667@tree.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070828015029.GA10107@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070828131942.18449886@hyperion.delvare> <20070828164440.GL32667@tree.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070901171048.GA3883@ucw.cz> <41840b750709011105s6c434217t50d965a0b17df643@mail.gmail.com> <20070901194417.GA24897@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070902213837.7293d6fa@hyperion.delvare> <20070903020200.GA8948@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070903180636.4096e7d5@hyperion.delvare> <20070903232225.GD3899@khazad-dum.debian.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.5 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 902 Lines: 20 On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:22:25 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I see that the power supply class units are 10^-6 A and 10^-6 W, so if > > we are supposed to be compatible, I guess we'll have to use this too. > > There was a good reason for that, and people who deal with small portables > said that they needed 10^-4 A or somesuch, at which point it makes more > sense to just go to 10^-6 already. I don't recall why 10^-6 W, though. Well, if we need 10^-4 A, and we use voltages in the 1-2 V range (that's what CPU, AGP etc. use these days), then we obviously need 10^-4 W as well. -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/