Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Add support for ltc2947

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 07:13:06AM +0000, Sa, Nuno wrote:
> 
> Quoting the reply I had:
> 
> "As the LTC2947 is bi-directional, the most likely use for the Min/Max
> Energy thresholds are for monitoring a battery being charged or
> discharged. 
> A limit could be set based around the battery's storage capacity so
> that the battery is protected from being overcharging or fully
> drained."
> 
> So, I'm not sure if this is a valid use case for hwmon subsystem. I'm
> aware there's also the power subsystem. So let me know what do you
> prefer here. Should I just report energyX_input attributes? Or can we
> keep the min/max?
> 
This isn't really a hwmon use case. Having such min/max attributes would
just be confusing.

Guenter



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