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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: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
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