Messages in this thread | | | From | Nicholas Knight <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:05:25 -0800 |
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On Friday 21 December 2001 01:33 pm, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > GiB is not a useful standard because NOBODY USES IT. When it's in > > common use, then consider applying it to the kernel, but please, > > not before then. > > What better place to start "common use" then the kernel source. > Let's lead the way, not wait around to follow others. > > Somebody has to be first, why not us? > Then once it get more common, we will have > been a leader forging into a brave new world :)
Maybe because there's strong resistance to the change in the very place you'd evidently like to START the change? That's generaly a clue that it'd be best NOT to try and make the change.
> > -Thomas > > Just my 2.8 KiB worth :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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