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Hi!

On 10/07/2013 07:49 PM, ext Brian Norris wrote:
> Are we (MTD) holding a revolutionary position against the standard
> kernel libraries, which recognize [KkMmGg] prefixes, but not [kMG]i
> prefixes? Should we extend memparse() to accept either form? Or would
> doing so simply pollute the library and not really satisfy anyone?

I was also irritated re-inventing the wheel here, but the problem is --
millions of people out there have their startup scripts and uboot environments
for phram, who expect this just to work with the next kernel upgrade...

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.