linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: regulator core.

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Message-Id: <20080223113845.e9eb65af.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:38:45 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	ian <spyro@....com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: regulator core.

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:26:36 +0000 ian <spyro@....com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Renaming is not an option - "current" is an electronic term for
> > which
> > > there is no alternative.
> > 
> > amps, milliamps,
> 
> Are units of current, not current itself.

Right.  And this is an argument *in favour* of naming the sysfs files
"amps" (actually microamps), not "current".  It conveys more information.
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