From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: MTD mailing list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: running out of space dd'ing JFFS2 image to /dev/mtdblock/0
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:03:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050201130315.GA11055@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107217171.783.332.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>
On Tue, 1 February 2005 00:19:31 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:39 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > This allows different people with different taste to specify numbers
> > in various simple formats. If you think you can improve on this,
> > please send me a patch.
>
> It is wrong to interpret 'k' 'M' and 'G' as anything other than 10^3,
> 10^6 or 10^9 respectively. If you have to do it to support a legacy
> interface like slram, that's vaguely acceptable. No more, though.
Misunderstanding. Nowhere do I accept 'k' without 'i' and nowhere do
I use 10^[369]. Everything is good. :)
Jörn
--
Victory in war is not repetitious.
-- Sun Tzu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-01 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-31 15:14 running out of space dd'ing JFFS2 image to /dev/mtdblock/0 Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 15:21 ` Josh Boyer
2005-01-31 15:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 15:54 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-31 16:14 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 16:22 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-31 16:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-31 16:26 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-31 16:51 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 17:11 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-31 17:21 ` Jörn Engel
2005-01-31 17:25 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-31 17:29 ` Josh Boyer
2005-01-31 17:38 ` Jörn Engel
2005-01-31 17:29 ` Jörn Engel
2005-01-31 17:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 17:52 ` Jörn Engel
2005-01-31 18:22 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 18:31 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-31 19:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 22:30 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-01-31 16:39 ` Jörn Engel
2005-02-01 0:19 ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-01 0:43 ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-01 13:03 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-01-31 16:01 ` Jörn Engel
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