netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: fix spelling of "Ki" IEC prefix

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Message-ID: <20191214154815.3143023b@hermes.lan>
Date:   Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:48:15 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: fix spelling of "Ki" IEC prefix

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:54:14 +0100
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net> wrote:

> The symbol for binary prefix kibi is "Ki", with uppercase K.
> In contrast, the symbol for decimal kilo is lowercase "k".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>

Why not just change prefix to always start with capital K.
Looks like that was should have been done in the first place.
This was introduced 3.17 by Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de>