From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ip-link: add switch to show human readable output
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:31:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141031123115.4cd13371@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141031111753.2b524ebb@leda.localdomain>
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:17:53 +0100
Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> on Wed, 2014/10/29 22:47:
> > I like the idea as a concept
>
> Great! ;)
>
> > but there are two issues:
> > 1. The IEC suffix is a rarely used thing and is non-standard
> > for communications where K = 1000 M = 1000000 etc.
> > Please just use standard suffices
>
> Removed the suffix in patch v3. Not sure if it is correct, though. I do use a
> base of 2, so K = 1024, M = 1048576, ...
No must be 1000 for communications (SI)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-10 22:27 [PATCHv2 1/1] ip-link: add switch to show human readable output Christian Hesse
2014-10-30 5:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-10-30 9:16 ` [PATCH v3 " Christian Hesse
2014-10-31 10:17 ` Christian Hesse
2014-10-31 19:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-10-31 21:33 ` [PATCH v4 " Christian Hesse
2014-11-02 20:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-11-03 6:53 ` Christian Hesse
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