Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:30:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:29:56 -0500 Received: from white.pocketinet.com ([12.17.167.5]:12665 "EHLO white.pocketinet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:29:53 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: nknight@pocketinet.com To: "Per Jessen" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:21:11 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] In-Reply-To: <3C234CC10005C1D9@mta13n.bluewin.ch> (added by postmaster@bluewin.ch) In-Reply-To: <3C234CC10005C1D9@mta13n.bluewin.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Dec 2001 07:28:13.0627 (UTC) FILETIME=[618690B0:01C18B83] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 22 December 2001 03:22 pm, Per Jessen wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:18:08 +0100 (MET), Pozsar Balazs wrote: > >This might be a standard, but _it_is_not_adopted_anywhere! (at least > > I haven't seen it anywhere (I might be blind)). > >I would rather call standard something which is adopted in real > > life. > > No, that would be a socalled defacto standard. Ie. not necessarily a > standard proposed and recommended by a standards body. For instance, > you may think that the UK using pounds and ounces is standard - after > all they are both being used in real life. But it is contrary to the > standard. (as given by the SI system). Not anymore. Apparently it is now illiegal in the UK to use Imperial measurements (or for that matter, anything but standard metric) in transactions. If people are still using the Imperial system in day to day life, they won't be very soon (and yes, this has infact been enforced at least once that I've heard of.) I just eagerly await the day that the U.S. government decides to stick its ass in and tell U.S. citizens (and whatever other countries they decide to pressure into agreeing with them) what we can and can't use to abbreviate 1024bytes, since we're all too busy arguing over wether or not to abide by the defacto standard that has been in use longer than I've been ALIVE (which yes, means I've not been alive very long.) Let me know when we're done fighting about wether or not we should confuse everyone (further) that tries to configure their first kernel. - 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/