Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:12:13 -0500 |
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On Friday 21 December 2001 01:40 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>: > > Eric S. Raymond writes:
> > Choice of kB vs KB vs KiB vs KKB could also be used in some places in > > the kernel. For instance, /proc/meminfo currently shows "kB". > > What, and *encourage* non-uniform terminology? No, I won't do that. > Better to have a single standard set of abbreviations, no matter how > ugly, than this.
find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep MiB | wc 46 lines, half of which seem to live in "jedec_probe.c".
find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep -w MB | wc 302 lines. And that's just upper case, whole word, not "MBs" or "Mb" or any other fun little variation...
find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep -i MEGABYTE | wc 31 lines.
find . -name "*.?" | xargs grep -i MEBIBYTE | wc 1 line, and it's a comment saying it's NOT being used (along with one of the MiB hits).
If you're going with a uniform terminology argument, you should drop MiB altogether. Unless you want to submit a patch to the kernel to standardize all the other occurences everywhere else? :)
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