[U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on 32-bit systems

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Mon Apr 12 20:30:54 CEST 2010


Scott Wood wrote:
> It's used often enough (including many places in U-Boot already), and 
> there's typically enough context, that I don't think too many would be 
> confused.

I guess my objection that I think the whole idea is stupid doesn't count for much?  I'll do it if Wolfgang insists, but I honestly believe that there was no confusion and that the introduction of KiB and its ilk just makes things worse, not better.  No one is going to compare memory sizes in kilobytes with distances in kilometers and get confused.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


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