netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ip-link: allow human readable output with base of 1024 only for byte counts

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Message-ID: <20150329225835.2cf0f770@uryu.home.lan>
Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:58:35 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Christian Hesse <list@...rm.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ip-link: allow human readable output with base of
 1024 only for byte counts

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:24:08 +0100
Christian Hesse <list@...rm.de> wrote:

> From: Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de>
> 
> Counting bytes with a base of 1024 is ok. Counting packets, errors, etc
> that way makes no sense.
> So only print byte counts with a base of 1024 if option -iec is given.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de>

This changes the output which users expect, especially the packet counts
should follow existing practice. And I doubt anyone would have 1024 errors.
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