From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ip-link: allow human readable output with base of 1024 only for byte counts Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:58:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20150329225835.2cf0f770@uryu.home.lan> References: <1427369048-1433-1-git-send-email-list@eworm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Christian Hesse To: Christian Hesse Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:32835 "EHLO mail-pd0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288AbbC3F6k (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:58:40 -0400 Received: by pdnc3 with SMTP id c3so165223032pdn.0 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:58:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1427369048-1433-1-git-send-email-list@eworm.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:24:08 +0100 Christian Hesse wrote: > From: Christian Hesse > > Counting bytes with a base of 1024 is ok. Counting packets, errors, etc > that way makes no sense. > So only print byte counts with a base of 1024 if option -iec is given. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse This changes the output which users expect, especially the packet counts should follow existing practice. And I doubt anyone would have 1024 errors.