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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ip-link: add switch to show human readable
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:31:15 -0700
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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)


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