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    power: supply: document current direction · 05f94eb9
    Sebastian Reichel authored
    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: default avatarSebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
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