linux-kernel - Re: libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery: Add capacity handling

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Message-ID: <20171018130907.GA25684@amd>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:09:07 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
Cc:     Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.co.uk>,
        pali.rohar@...il.com, sre@...nel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        clayton@...ftyguy.net, martijn@...xit.nl,
        sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com,
        Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...n-nandra.com>,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: libbattery was Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] power: generic-adc-battery:
 Add capacity handling


> So I have three questions:
> a) why do you use float/double instead of fixed point for such
> simple and imprecise calculations?

Cleaner code, and probably faster, too.
									Pavel
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