Re: [PATCH 2/4] power_supply: Introduce generic psy charging driver

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > 30*HZ means 30 seconds in the kernel... what is hard to understand
> > about it?
> 
> Well I might be picky, but since it is a charging algorithm dealing with
> ampères, volts, constant-current/constant-voltage, watchdogs and
> timeouts, all stated in SI units, it would be nice if all such constants
> were specified in simple units instead of kernel-specific terms.

I agree HZ is badly named, but hopefully anyone working on kernel is
already familiar with it.

But... what would actually help: I believe we should introduce
milivolt_t, miliamp_t, milisec_t etc... types. Storing milivolts in
int, then having comment saying "milivolts" is just wrong.

									Pavel
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