[Buildroot] [PATCH 7/7] board/kontron/smarc-sal28/genimage.cfg: fix option suffix

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Tue Nov 9 08:50:14 UTC 2021


Am 2021-11-09 09:38, schrieb Giulio Benetti:
> Hi Michael, All,
> 
>> Il giorno 9 nov 2021, alle ore 09:05, Michael Walle
>> <michael at walle.cc> ha scritto:
> 
>> Am 2021-11-09 00:05, schrieb Giulio Benetti:
>> 
>>> Option 'offset = 4k' must be 'option = 4K'.
>> 
>> Why is this is a 'must'? Apparently it works, no?
> 
> This is a standard I’ve proposed and it’s been accepted by
> committing all the 102 patches.
> There is not an existing standard and I’ve created one, that’s
> all.
> 
>> So if anything
>> it is for unifying; but even then it's moving in the wrong
>> direction. There is no "K" prefix in si units. Stictly speaking
>> there is no "KB"; there is a "kB" or a "KiB".
> 
> Here we had 2 choices using genimage “K” or “k”. I went for
> “K” since the most of the files had “K”.
> And anyway both “K” and “k” are not that good, but it’s not
> our fault, it depends on genimage input format.
> 
> Yann already explained the differences between notations here:
> https://lists.buildroot.org/pipermail/buildroot/2021-November/627885.html
> 
> You can follow-up the thread and the motivations on such thing.

Thanks for the pointer, but I won't make a fuzz. I'm fine with
the change.

-michael


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