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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ian <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: regulator core.
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:38:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080223113845.e9eb65af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203794796.17284.1.camel@wirenth>

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:26:36 +0000 ian <spyro@f2s.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.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-23 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 17:09 Liam Girdwood
2008-02-23  8:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23  9:52   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-02-23 18:18     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 19:26       ` ian
2008-02-23 19:38         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-24  8:51         ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-24 22:47           ` ian
2008-02-24 10:23     ` Mark Brown
2008-02-24 11:18       ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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