linux-kernel - Re: small diff in reported GiB size of an SSD

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Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:49:07 -0800
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: small diff in reported GiB size of an SSD

On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 13:31 +0000, Toralf Förster wrote:
> I'm just curious about this diff in dmesg output between 4.3.2 and
> 4.3.3 at a 64 bit Gentoo hardened system:
> 
> $ diff dmesg-4.4.[23]-hardened | grep logical
> < sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/223
> GiB)
> > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/224
> > GiB)
> 

commit 564b026fbd0d28e9f70fb3831293d2922bb7855b
Author: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 20 14:58:29 2016 -0800

    string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs
 
James