Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-06 Thread Anton Vorontsov
Hi Paul, On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:29:56PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello Anton, > > But in real world, it's rather common to colloquially name > such kind of power "AC", and that's "term" is known to many-many > people, and intuitively understood even for those, who didn't hit it

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-06 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:06:04PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > Saturday, May 5, 2007, 4:46:26 PM, you wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > >> Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dum

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-06 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:39:40PM +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote: > > > secondary notion too, as that is common. It would be generic. > > > > > > Or maybe I just didn't get the idea behind the "type" attribute :-) > > > > > > I'd appreciate if these were documented in the text file. > > > > I think I

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-06 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:09:37PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007, ian wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dumb" (i.e. it doesn't do any > > > control signaling over the

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 05 May 2007, ian wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dumb" (i.e. it doesn't do any > > control signaling over the USB bus for power-control purposes), > > it might be dumb, but it is useful to know we

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 05 May 2007, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Saturday, May 5, 2007, 4:46:26 PM, you wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dumb" (i.e. it doesn't do any > >> control signaling over the USB bus for power-control

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 5 2007 15:39, pHilipp Zabel wrote: >> > > > +enum power_supply_type { >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY = 0, >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_UPS, >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_AC, >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_USB, >> > > > +}; >> > > >> > > How about dumb (non-USB) D

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread ian
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dumb" (i.e. it doesn't do any > control signaling over the USB bus for power-control purposes), it might be dumb, but it is useful to know wether the PDA is charging from usb or mains p

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread Damien Tournoud
Paul Sokolovsky wrote: There's actually a nice and terse term for that - mains, but I wonder how well non-English speaking people are familiar with it (I personally saw them only in manuals, which, as well known, nobody reads). I, for one, wasn't :) My 2 cents: ADAPTER seems better than AC, wh

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello ian, Saturday, May 5, 2007, 4:46:26 PM, you wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:54 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> Given that USB-power *is* usually also "dumb" (i.e. it doesn't do any >> control signaling over the USB bus for power-control purposes), > it might be dumb, but it

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Anton, Saturday, May 5, 2007, 3:32:30 PM, you wrote: > Hello Henrique, Shem, > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:54:13AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Fri, 04 May 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote: >> > >+enum power_supply_type { >> > >+ POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY = 0, >> > >+

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread pHilipp Zabel
On 5/5/07, Anton Vorontsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Henrique, Shem, On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:54:13AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote: > > >+enum power_supply_type { > > >+ POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY = 0, > > >+ POWER_SU