Re: [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix size output in MB

From: James Bottomley
Date: Sat Aug 30 2008 - 17:46:00 EST


On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:59 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:45:16 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > 2. We should report in GB or TB when appropriate. The exact definition
> > of 'appropriate' is going to vary from person to person. Might I
> > suggest that we should report between two and four significant digits.
> > eg 9543 MB is ok, 10543 MB should be 10 GB.
> >
>
> I've been looking at doing something like this for the mmc_block
> driver, so a generic helper is welcome. :)

Does MMC have the 10^3 requirement like SCSI/ATA disks do, or can you
use 2^10 like standard computer stuff for capacities?

James


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