Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S286584AbRLUVKi>; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:10:38 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S286581AbRLUVKX>; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:10:23 -0500
Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:46610 "HELO
	perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP
	id <S286577AbRLUVJn>; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:09:43 -0500
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:09:35 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
X-X-Sender: <riel@duckman.distro.conectiva>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
        David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>,
        Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
In-Reply-To: <20011221160333.K15926@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0112211907350.28489-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org
X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:57:11AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> > Accept that KB and GB are *wrong* (this isn't a statement of opinion
> > but rather of fact [1]) and then choose whether or not Linux
> > documentation should be wrong or right.
>
> Can you send me replacements for all the documentation I've got that
> mentions GB or KB then?  I wouldn't want to be non-compliant.

And how about my 17 M-KiByte disk ?

(yes, 17 million kibibytes, plus or minus whatever the amount of
disk space is the factory's low-level format found ... probably
as much as an error as getting the exact word in the manual)

cheers,

Rik
-- 
DMCA, SSSCA, W3C?  Who cares?  http://thefreeworld.net/

http://www.surriel.com/		http://distro.conectiva.com/

-
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/