Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:44:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:44:23 -0500 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:5625 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:44:15 -0500 From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:44:09 GMT Message-Id: To: cs@zip.com.au Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [OT] man-pages-1.46 was released an hour ago or so. Cameron Simpson asks: > Just out of curiosity, is there anywhere in the kernel space > where KB (et al) is _not_ used to mean a power of 2 value? Disk sizes are given in decimal, so in the boot message hda: 120064896 sectors (61473 MB) w/2048KiB Cache ... the MB denotes (decimal) megabytes, while the KiB denotes (binary) kibibytes. Yes, the parenthetical parts are pleonastic both times. Andries - 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/