Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 05/29/2017 04:25 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> So the question is are we willing to do all these changes across
>> the tree to achieve common definitions of KB, MB, GB, TB in the
>> kernel ? Is it worth ?
> 
> No I don't think it's worth the churn.
> 
> But have you looked at using the "proper" names, ie. KiB, MiB, GiB?
> 
> AFAICS the only clash is:
> 
> drivers/mtd/ssfdc.c:#define KiB(x)	( (x) * 1024L )
> drivers/mtd/ssfdc.c:#define MiB(x)	( KiB(x) * 1024L )
> 
> Which would be easy to convert.

Sure, will take a look into generalizing KiB/MiB/GiB instead of
current proposal for KB/MB/GB.