linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY

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Message-ID: <20071205203109.GA3889@ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:31:10 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cbou@...l.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVEL

On Wed 2007-12-12 14:12:56, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> The CAPACITY_LEVEL stuff defines various levels of charge; however, what
> is the difference between them?  What differentiates between HIGH and NORMAL,
> LOW and CRITICAL, etc?

On embedded hw, it is quite common that you can sense only 4-or-so
levels of battery charge, very non-linear. I suspect that's what capacity_level comes
from.

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