linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

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Message-Id: <1162048148.2723.61.camel@zelda.fubar.dk>
Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:09:08 -0400
From:	David Zeuthen <davidz@...hat.com>
To:	Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...top.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, len.brown@...el.com,
	greg@...ah.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linux-thinkpad mailing list <linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 14:22 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 13:15 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > 
> > Hm. Again we have the question of whether to export 'threshold_pct'
> > vs.'threshold_abs', or whether to have a separate string property
> > which says what the 'unit' of the threshold is. I don't care much --
> > I'll do whatever DavidZ prefers.
> 
> Unit is easier to process in HAL in my opinion.

What about just prepending the unit to the 'threshold' file? Then user
space can expect the contents of said file to be of the form "%d %s". I
don't think that violates the "only one value per file" sysfs mantra.

    David


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