On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:02:48 +0200 Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reic...@collabora.com> wrote:
> Currently the sign for CURRENT_NOW and CURRENT_AVG is a bit > of a mess. There are basically 3 different ways battery fuel > gauges report the current: > > 1. uses negative values for discharging and positive values > for charging > 2. uses positive values for discharging and negative values > for discharging (opposit of 1) > 3. only uses positive values > > As a result userspace currently cannot use the sign at all in > a generic way. Let's solve the issue by documenting a canonical > way for reporting the data and ensure new drivers follow this > way. Then existing drivers can be fixed on a case-by-case basis. > > The 'negative value = battery discharging' has been choosen, > since there are only very few drivers doing it the other way > around. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reic...@collabora.com> > --- would be nice if this comes in, so that is it clearly specified. Regards, Andreas
