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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com, David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>
Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:12:13 -0500
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On Friday 21 December 2001 01:40 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>:
> > Eric S. Raymond writes:

> > Choice of kB vs KB vs KiB vs KKB could also be used in some places in
> > the kernel.  For instance, /proc/meminfo currently shows "kB".
>
> What, and *encourage* non-uniform terminology?  No, I won't do that.
> Better to have a single standard set of abbreviations, no matter how
> ugly, than this.

 find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep MiB | wc
     46 lines, half of which seem to live in "jedec_probe.c".

 find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep -w MB | wc
    302 lines.  And that's just upper case, whole word, not "MBs" or "Mb" or 
any other fun little variation...

 find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep -i MEGABYTE | wc
     31 lines.

 find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep -i MEBIBYTE | wc
      1 line, and it's a comment saying it's NOT being used (along with one 
of the MiB hits).

If you're going with a uniform terminology argument, you should drop MiB 
altogether.  Unless you want to submit a patch to the kernel to standardize 
all the other occurences everywhere else? :)

Rob
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