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Message-ID: <20141031123115.4cd13371@urahara> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:31:15 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> To: Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ip-link: add switch to show human readable output On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:17:53 +0100 Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> on Wed, 2014/10/29 22:47: > > I like the idea as a concept > > Great! ;) > > > but there are two issues: > > 1. The IEC suffix is a rarely used thing and is non-standard > > for communications where K = 1000 M = 1000000 etc. > > Please just use standard suffices > > Removed the suffix in patch v3. Not sure if it is correct, though. I do use a > base of 2, so K = 1024, M = 1048576, ... No must be 1000 for communications (SI) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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