linux-kernel - Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

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Message-ID: <OF31FCCC98.31A543B2-ON41257220.006579A9-41257220.0065DD0F@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:32:37 +0100
From:	Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@...ibm.com>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mschwid2@...ibm.com, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote on 11/08/2006 06:09:16 PM:

> On Wed, 8 November 2006 17:54:12 +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> >
> > What about the following ...
>
> Awesome.  The next time someone flames me over this subject, I can
> simly refer to this file.
>
> One could nitpick that a) this applies to any interface, so it also
> includes kernel command line and module parameters and b) there are
> existing interfaces that interpret "kb" as 2^10 bytes, etc.  Maybe
> this could be noted somehow, but it's not too important imho.
>

a) Right, that is a more general "problem". But I am not sure, if I want
to solve/decide that.
b) I wanted to document the recommendations, I didn't want to
document what currently is done.

Michael

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