Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161451AbWKHSbk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:31:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754650AbWKHSbk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:31:40 -0500 Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.150]:18733 "EHLO mtagate1.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754647AbWKHSbi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:31:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061108170916.GA570@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Subject: Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files? To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= Cc: Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mschwid2@de.ibm.com, pavel@ucw.cz X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build V70_M4_01112005 Beta 3NP January 11, 2005 Message-ID: From: Michael Holzheu Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:32:37 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D12ML061/12/M/IBM(Release 6.5.5HF607 | June 26, 2006) at 08/11/2006 19:34:41 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 27 J?rn Engel wrote on 11/08/2006 06:09:16 PM: > On Wed, 8 November 2006 17:54:12 +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > > > What about the following ... > > Awesome. The next time someone flames me over this subject, I can > simly refer to this file. > > One could nitpick that a) this applies to any interface, so it also > includes kernel command line and module parameters and b) there are > existing interfaces that interpret "kb" as 2^10 bytes, etc. Maybe > this could be noted somehow, but it's not too important imho. > a) Right, that is a more general "problem". But I am not sure, if I want to solve/decide that. b) I wanted to document the recommendations, I didn't want to document what currently is done. Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/