Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Introduce strtobytes() library function to convert string to byte count.

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 15.09.2010 20:46, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Am 15.09.2010 um 14:23 schrieb Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com:
> [...]
>> +/*
>> + * Convert string to bytes, allowing either K/k for KB, M/m for MB,
>> + * G/b for GB or T/t for TB. Default without any postfix is MB.
>       ^^^ typo
>> + * End pointer will be returned in *end, if end is valid.
>> + * Return 0 on error.
>> + */
>
> You seem to be refactoring existing code into this function, but the 
> use of such suffixes usually brings up the question whether it's 
> factor 1024 or 1000.
> Here you're using 1024 apparently. If you don't want the user dealing 
> with (imo ugly) Ki/Mi/Gi/Ti units this should at least be documented 
> accordingly: G/g for GiB, etc. or G/g for GB = 1024 MB, etc.
>
> Andreas
[snip]

I'd prefer the standard prefixes: KiB, MiB, GiB for powers of 1024, KB, 
MB, GB for powers of 1000.
The standard has the big advantage of being a standard, even if not 
everybody likes it.

Existing QEMU code should be cleaned (= changed) were needed.

Stefan