Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. > > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > Power meter applets will be eternally buggy if you

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. > > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > few others -- my memory fails me on this. No! volt = m^2 g sec^-3 A^-1 I do not want to learn t

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Ben Ford
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > > David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > useful - how many people on this

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by > > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all. > > Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland? Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain users pleas

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Steve Underwood wrote: > James Sutherland wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > > > > useful - h

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changeable by > > > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all. > > > > Just an idea, . . but isn't this som

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
James Sutherland wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > > > useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metr

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > > useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, > > > and how many in gallo

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Ben Ford
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, > > and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, > and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that > neither could count as universa

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
James Sutherland wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: > > > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > > > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > > > few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > > > iirc, S

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > > few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it shou

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
>> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. >> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very >> few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > There are lots of SI units, one for each physical dimension > that can be measured. Some of the ones that might apply her

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
>The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. >That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very >few others -- my memory fails me on this. There are lots of SI units, one for each physical dimension that can be measured. Some of the ones that might apply here are: - V

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Russell King
Albert D. Cahalan writes: > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > few others -- my memory fails me on this. iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres" [flames to /dev/null please] ;) -- R

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. Power meter applets will be eternally buggy if you force them to deal

Better battery info/status files

2001-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. Pavel --- clean/drivers/acpi/cmbatt.c Wed Jan 31 16:14:26 2001 +++ linux/drivers/acpi/cmbatt.c Thu Feb 1 10:55:31 2001 @@ -246,38 +254,32 @@ goto end;