Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes

2021-02-23 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 02:44:37PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have a 'B' suffix > that is ambiguous for bytes, as well as a less-frequently-used 'E' > suffix for extremely large exibytes. In practice, people using hex > inputs are specifying

Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes

2021-02-11 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 2/11/21 9:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have a 'B' suffix > that is ambiguous for bytes, as well as a less-frequently-used 'E' > suffix for extremely large exibytes. In practice, people using hex > inputs are specifying values in bytes (and

[PATCH v2 3/4] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes

2021-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have a 'B' suffix that is ambiguous for bytes, as well as a less-frequently-used 'E' suffix for extremely large exibytes. In practice, people using hex inputs are specifying values in bytes (and would have written 0x200, or possibly relied