From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:20:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BAB6C4.20007@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220195634.4021.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On 31/08/08 16:13, James Bottomley wrote:
> This patch adds the ability to print sizes in either units of 10^3 (SI)
> or 2^10 (Binary) units. It rounds up to three significant figures and
> can be used for either memory or storage capacities.
> + const char *units_2[] = {"B", "Kib", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB",
I think this should have been "KiB".
I'd prefer an option to display these without the "i"...
Oh and you need to store the original capacity before it's re-scaled to
512 bytes. Outputting sdkp->capacity at that stage it'll be a count of
512-byte sectors.
--
Simon Arlott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-31 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 14:08 [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix size output in MB Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 17:24 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-30 17:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-30 20:59 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-08-30 21:45 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-30 22:13 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-08-30 22:24 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 22:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-30 21:02 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 21:03 ` [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/ Simon Arlott
2008-08-31 1:59 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-31 2:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-31 14:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-08-31 15:04 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-31 15:08 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:20 ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2008-08-31 15:41 ` James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-31 18:54 ` [PATCH] mmc_block: use generic helper to print capacities Pierre Ossman
2008-09-05 20:09 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-05 20:52 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-09-05 21:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-06 8:57 ` Pierre Ossman
2008-09-03 3:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: add generic helper to print sizes rounded to the correct SI range Andrew Morton
2008-09-03 14:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-09-03 15:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-31 15:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] sd: use generic helper to print capacities in both binary and SI James Bottomley
2008-08-31 15:08 ` [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/ Simon Arlott
2008-08-30 21:57 ` [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix size output in MB Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-30 22:22 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-31 12:27 ` James Smart
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