On 01 July, 2014 - Robert C. Helling wrote:

> 
> On 30 Jun 2014, at 20:43, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Linus,
> 
> > Btw, should we really use a pO2 of 1.6 by default? I think PADI and
> > others suggest 1.4 for recreational diving. I realize recreational
> > diving also implies "no plan", and deco diving does tend to use 1.6
> > for the deco bottles, but this does sound like something people might
> > want to change. And that "fill_default_cylinder()" function (and the
> > cylinder depth it calculates) is used not just by planning.
> > 
> > This is not new to your patch (which I agree with), my query is just
> > triggered by seeing the patch.. The dive planner already has a setting
> > for pO2 (separately for bottom time and deco), and we seem to be
> > ignoring it here..
> 
> I would leave it that way as (at least to me) EAN50 at 21m and O2 at 6m is 
> somehow wired directly into my brain and those two assume 1.6 and not less. 
> In particular the planner would switch to pure O2 only at 3m which I don’t 
> think anybody does out there in the real world.
> 

Re-wiring it to use the mod/deco-po2-values we have in prefs would be
better, but i got just confused when looking at all the different
po2-values we keep in the prefs, so i didn't change that right now.

//Anton

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