[PATCH] mtd: phram: Make phram 64-bit compatible

[Jörn Engel]

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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