On Thu 15.May'08 at 14:18:09 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > To avoid these kind of doubts may I suggest using the time > > conversion definitions of include/linux/time.h? > > > > It would be much easier to understand the intention with > > NSEC_PER_SEC, USEC_PER_SEC etc (comments would also help) > > Ok, here's an updated version that makes the conversions a bit clearer. > Tested and run on i386/x86-64. > --- > ibmaem: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit platforms > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong at us.ibm.com> > --- > > drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c | 9 ++++++--- > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c > index 22fa7d6..3013492 100644 > --- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c > @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ > #include <linux/idr.h> > #include <linux/sched.h> > #include <linux/platform_device.h> > +#include <linux/math64.h> > +#include <linux/time.h> > > #define REFRESH_INTERVAL (HZ) > #define IPMI_TIMEOUT (30 * HZ) > @@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ > > #define AEM_DEFAULT_POWER_INTERVAL 1000 > #define AEM_MIN_POWER_INTERVAL 200 > +#define UJ_PER_MJ 1000L > > static DEFINE_IDR(aem_idr); > static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(aem_idr_lock); > @@ -841,7 +844,7 @@ static ssize_t aem_show_power(struct device *dev, > { > struct sensor_device_attribute *attr = to_sensor_dev_attr(devattr); > struct aem_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev); > - u64 before, after, time; > + u64 before, after, delta, time; > signed long leftover; > struct timespec b, a; > > @@ -864,9 +867,9 @@ static ssize_t aem_show_power(struct device *dev, > mutex_unlock(&data->lock); > > time = timespec_to_ns(&a) - timespec_to_ns(&b); > - time /= 1000; > + delta = (after - before) * UJ_PER_MJ; > > - return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (after - before) * 1000000000 / time); > + return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", div64_u64(delta * NSEC_PER_SEC, time)); > } Thanks! Wow...so the power unit really is uW, which is a nice precision!