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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-02-23 03:13:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-02-23 03:19:04 +0100 |
| commit | 5556b5fe41173107a67dbe875fbd916a46e52a02 (patch) | |
| tree | a9ca468b7c030c5c95a87bb35b4f986dedb1bba8 /man/udev.xml | |
| parent | e342365c27ecae32a7f20ada0b2c623ce22e5ea8 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-5556b5fe41173107a67dbe875fbd916a46e52a02.tar.gz | |
core: clean up some confusing regarding SI decimal and IEC binary suffixes for sizes
According to Wikipedia it is customary to specify hardware metrics and
transfer speeds to the basis 1000 (SI decimal), while software metrics
and physical volatile memory (RAM) sizes to the basis 1024 (IEC binary).
So far we specified everything in IEC, let's fix that and be more
true to what's otherwise customary. Since we don't want to parse "Mi"
instead of "M" we document each time what the context used is.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/udev.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/udev.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/udev.xml b/man/udev.xml index 9733b85760..95b37fd0cf 100644 --- a/man/udev.xml +++ b/man/udev.xml @@ -984,14 +984,18 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>MTUBytes=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>The maximum transmission unit in bytes to set for the device.</para> + <para>The maximum transmission unit in bytes to set for + the device. The usual suffixes K, M, G, are supported and + are understood to the base of 1024.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>BitsPerSecond=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>The speed to set for the device, the value is rounded down - to the nearest Mbps.</para> + <para>The speed to set for the device, the value is + rounded down to the nearest Mbps. The usual suffixes K, M, + G, are supported and are understood to the base of + 1000.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |