[PATCH 5/9] vsprintf: add %w and %w support to print unit

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 17:32 Thu 02 Sep     , Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:29:33PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello Jean-Christophe,
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:10:20PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > Show a '%w' or %W thing.
> > > This will show a frequency or byte at format xxx[.xxx] [ kMG]
> > > the precision can not excess the base kMG of the current unit
> > > otherwise it will be automatically reduce
> > > if no precision is specified and there is rest we will use a default
> > > precision of 3 as 66.667 M
> > > base will be typically 1000 for Hz or B and 1024 for iB
> > I see this used e.g. as:
> > 
> > 	printk("%WiB", somevalue)
> > 
> > right?  hmm, what if somevalue is say 5?  If I understand correctly the
> > output then is: "5 iB".
> [I forgot to complete this, sorry]
> 
> "5 iB" looks ugly, doesn't it?  Do you care enough to fix that?
After it's everyone preference

What do you think of
100MHz
100 MHz

1 Hz
1Hz

100 MiB
100MiB

1iB
1 iB

so which one?

Best Regards,
J.