Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:14:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:14:19 -0500 Received: from 217-126-161-163.uc.nombres.ttd.es ([217.126.161.163]:63104 "EHLO DervishD.viadomus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:14:15 -0500 To: matt@theBachChoir.org.uk, michael.dunsky@p4all.de Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, scole@lanl.gov Message-Id: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:25:47 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=FA=F1ez?= de Arenas Coronado Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=FA=F1ez?= de Arenas Coronado X-Mailer: DervishD TWiSTiNG Mailer Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all :)) >You are close - he uses "MiB" as short for "mebi" - Mega-binary. Personally I don't like very much the abbreviations, but I must recognize that they remove all possible ambiguity for the Configure.help. With MiB, GiB, etc... you're completely sure that you are talking about 2^20, 2^30 and not 10^6, 10^9, etc... So I think that is a good idea in general to use that abbreviations for the binary units. Moreover, it's official and correct use. Eric made a sensible decision here. Ra?l - 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/