Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:14:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:14:23 -0500 Received: from white.pocketinet.com ([12.17.167.5]:35537 "EHLO white.pocketinet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:14:09 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: nknight@pocketinet.com To: Thomas Dodd , Linux KernelList Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:05:25 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] In-Reply-To: <20011221153136.G15926@redhat.com> <20011221161030.L15926@redhat.com> <3C23AAC0.2030406@cypress.com> In-Reply-To: <3C23AAC0.2030406@cypress.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Dec 2001 22:12:29.0439 (UTC) FILETIME=[946D80F0:01C18A6C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 21 December 2001 01:33 pm, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > GiB is not a useful standard because NOBODY USES IT. When it's in > > common use, then consider applying it to the kernel, but please, > > not before then. > > What better place to start "common use" then the kernel source. > Let's lead the way, not wait around to follow others. > > Somebody has to be first, why not us? > Then once it get more common, we will have > been a leader forging into a brave new world :) Maybe because there's strong resistance to the change in the very place you'd evidently like to START the change? That's generaly a clue that it'd be best NOT to try and make the change. > > -Thomas > > Just my 2.8 KiB worth :) - 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/