Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:13:14 +0200 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix size output in MB |
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:45:49 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:59 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:45:16 -0600 > > Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. We should report in GB or TB when appropriate. The exact definition > > > of 'appropriate' is going to vary from person to person. Might I > > > suggest that we should report between two and four significant digits. > > > eg 9543 MB is ok, 10543 MB should be 10 GB. > > > > > > > I've been looking at doing something like this for the mmc_block > > driver, so a generic helper is welcome. :) > > Does MMC have the 10^3 requirement like SCSI/ATA disks do, or can you > use 2^10 like standard computer stuff for capacities? >
Some do, some don't. I prefer the 2^10 and MiB variants as it avoids ambiguity.
Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman
Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
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