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Message-ID: <20070413023659.GA17467@zarina>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:36:59 +0400
From: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>
To: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@...il.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org
Subject: Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/7] [RFC] Battery monitoring class
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:34:06PM -0400, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4/12/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> wrote:
> >On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> >> * Yup, I've read last discussion regarding batteries, and I've seen
> >> objections against "charge" term, quoting Shem Multinymous:
> >>
> >> "And, for the reasons I explained earlier, I strongly suggest not using
> >> the term "charge" except when referring to the action of charging.
> >> Hence:
> >> s/charge_rate/rate/; s/charge/capacity/"
> >>
> >> But lets think about it once again? We'll make things much cleaner
> >> if we'll drop "capacity" at all.
> >
> >I stand with Shem on this one. The people behind the SBS specification
> >seems to agree... that specification is aimed at *engineers* and still
> >avoids the obvious trap of using "charge" due to its high potential for
> >confusion.
> >
> >I don't even want to know how much of a mess the people writing applets
> >woudl make of it...
>
> With fixed-units files, having *_energy and *_capacity isn't too clear
> either... Nor is it consistent with SBS, since SBS uses "capacity" to
> refer to either energy or charge, depending on a units attribute.
>
> As a compromise, how about using "energy" and "charge" for quantities,
> and "charging" (i.e., a verb) when referring to the operation?
It would be great compromise! Please please please!
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