From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac18
Date: 25 Jun 2001 14:08:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9h898a$nam$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010625141459.A6669@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Followup to: <20010625141459.A6669@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: Alan Cox <laughing@shared-source.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and (Masaru Kawashima)
> probe for longer on cmd timeout
<Whimper>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-25 13:14 Linux 2.4.5-ac18 Alan Cox
2001-06-25 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-06-25 21:31 ` David Lang
2001-06-26 0:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-26 0:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
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