Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:53:44 -0400
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nsn.com>,
        linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: phram: Make phram 64-bit compatible
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On Mon, 7 October 2013 10:49:43 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> 
> [After more research:] It looks like this topic may be the subject of
> some long-past flame wars. If I am digging up past demons, then I'd
> prefer to let sleeping Balrogs lie.

Most of the time it is obvious from context whether you want base-1000
or base-1024 numbers.  So in the common case the extra letter is plain
annoying.  In less common cases it matters a lot and lack of the extra
letter is rather irritating.

One possible solution would be to have three suffixes.  Ki for
base-1024, Kd for base-1000 and K for "I don't care, you decide for
me".  But I am sure that would simply cause another round of
flamewars.

It is not a hard technical problem.  As a result, noone on this list
has the required expertise to solve it.

Jörn

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