[PATCH] mtd: phram: Make phram 64-bit compatible
Jörn Engel
joern at logfs.org
Mon Oct 7 12:53:44 EDT 2013
On Mon, 7 October 2013 10:49:43 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>
> [After more research:] It looks like this topic may be the subject of
> some long-past flame wars. If I am digging up past demons, then I'd
> prefer to let sleeping Balrogs lie.
Most of the time it is obvious from context whether you want base-1000
or base-1024 numbers. So in the common case the extra letter is plain
annoying. In less common cases it matters a lot and lack of the extra
letter is rather irritating.
One possible solution would be to have three suffixes. Ki for
base-1024, Kd for base-1000 and K for "I don't care, you decide for
me". But I am sure that would simply cause another round of
flamewars.
It is not a hard technical problem. As a result, noone on this list
has the required expertise to solve it.
Jörn
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