Followup to: <20010625141459.A6669@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: Alan Cox <laughing@shared-source.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and (Masaru Kawashima)
> probe for longer on cmd timeout
<Whimper>
Please, people... S is siemens, not seconds. Seconds is "s" (lower
case.) The rule is simple: units named after people have their
symbols, but not their names, capitalized.
Microseconds are written µs, or if the µ symbol is unavailable, us.
Sorry, this one grates on me...
-hpa
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