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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>:
> I take it this is your way of volunteering to always
> keep all kernel documentation accurate as well as
> answer questions from newbies who've never seen
> 'KiB' before ? ;)

One of the arguments for the KiB declaration, despite the ugliness of
"kibibytes", is that a newbie seeing "32KiB" is quite likely to deduce
what's meant from context.  Let's not exaggerate the difficulties
here.
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