linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/13] ARM: dts: armada-385-linksys: use binary unit prefixes

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Message-ID: <20170522202416.1c48d91a@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 20:24:16 +0200
From:   Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
        Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] ARM: dts: armada-385-linksys: use binary unit
 prefixes

On Mon, 22 May 2017 17:00:01 +0200
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
> > Use IEEE 1541-2002 unit prefixes for sizes.  
> 
> Does ePAPR recommend this?

Not directly, but the paper (v1.1) itself is using MiB as well which
could be seen as a recommendation.

SI and NIST to my knowledge explicitly state to not use SI prefixes for
anything but powers of 10. Also as far as I'm aware any relevant
standard body adopted / endorsed these.

> 
> I think this looks ugly, so i would not do it.

Needs getting used to indeed. I for myself I can say I've gotten over
it by now. Grepping the Linux tree shows quite a few other examples of
MiB so this one wont feel lonely either.

Ralph