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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on 32-bit systems
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:59:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100412175932.22D1919F60@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x2ped82fe3e1004120912u313a0c4du533a91f292ceaccc@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Timur Tabi,

In message <x2ped82fe3e1004120912u313a0c4du533a91f292ceaccc@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > If we make this change, we can probably use this function as well to
> > print the size of storage devices like NAND, USB Mass Storage, hard
> > disk drives, etc. =A0Eventually we can clean up some pieces of code
> > then...
> 
> I'm working on it now.  I did notice something odd, though.  The
> strings for sizes are GB, MB, and kB.  Why is the "k" lowercase?

H[iy]st[oe]ric reasons, probably.

We should use standardized names now, i. e. GiB, MiB, KiB, etc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 23:02 [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v3] fix print_size printing fractional gigabyte numbers on 32-bit platforms Timur Tabi
2010-03-30 23:02 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on 32-bit systems Timur Tabi
2010-04-09 20:22   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-09 20:27     ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-09 20:40       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 16:12         ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 16:16           ` Nick Thompson
2010-04-12 16:21             ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 16:27               ` Nick Thompson
2010-04-12 18:02             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 17:59           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-04-12 18:03             ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 18:20               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 18:22               ` Scott Wood
2010-04-12 18:30                 ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 18:50                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 19:10                     ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 19:26                       ` Scott Wood
2010-04-09 20:10 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v3] fix print_size printing fractional gigabyte numbers on 32-bit platforms Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 16:04   ` Timur Tabi

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