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From: David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>
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Subject: Configure.help editorial policy
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Eric S. Raymond writes:
 > If there is a clear consensus from lkml, I will be happy to back
 > out this change.  Perhaps this terminological standard does not
 > meet a real need, perhaps it will be rejected by most engineers and 
 > deserves to wither on the vine.  It's happened before.

Another option: maybe the choice of KB vs KiB vs KKB should be a
configuration choice.

--David Garfield
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