From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:09:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:09:04 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:19206 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:08:51 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18 Date: 25 Jun 2001 14:08:26 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: <9h898a$nam$1@cesium.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <20010625141459.A6669@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by deepthought.transmeta.com id OAA01341 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20010625141459.A6669@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> By author: Alan Cox In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and (Masaru Kawashima) > probe for longer on cmd timeout Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their symbols, but not their names, capitalized. Microseconds are written µs, or if the µ symbol is unavailable, us. Sorry, this one grates on me... -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt