Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:20:30 -0700


On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:52:26PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>:
> > Another option: maybe the choice of KB vs KiB vs KKB should be a
> > configuration choice.
>
> You *must* be joking.
>

Hopefully. Here's a serious one tho. Why don't we say at the bottom:
1 kB (or KB or KiB or ...) is 2^10 bytes. Like we do for code that can
be compiled as a module... As long as we're consistant in the suffix,
and we define it, it doesn't matter what it is.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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