From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: fix spelling of "Ki" IEC prefix
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:48:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191214154815.3143023b@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191212215414.3655-1-jwilk@jwilk.net>
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:54:14 +0100
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> wrote:
> The symbol for binary prefix kibi is "Ki", with uppercase K.
> In contrast, the symbol for decimal kilo is lowercase "k".
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Why not just change prefix to always start with capital K.
Looks like that was should have been done in the first place.
This was introduced 3.17 by Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
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2019-12-12 21:54 [PATCH iproute2] ip: fix spelling of "Ki" IEC prefix Jakub Wilk
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