From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 21:14:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89561065674 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:14:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684818FC18 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so1087832wyf.13 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9fCfDQp6mSULxFARIADaJDnqVWbIqj8ejqRYpLoh/aY=; b=k6cRtQlzbF1e9pInctPRP/rBgskYlA5BKubvRQvSjOj7Lb+gYx/Cy/A+q2+yIYpcCj fonqGf0gtM2XIC+jzTxDB3RkdPgsB7zSfWYuf5x6+Ixgb1W39VgSu/bsCUt7jtv5WH0/ LqKRqsLR23I5EkTzJjptfQRX89gHar20UIv00= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=RnwOQs/x+DfzL6VLnlzIdMJ/TGak+m9p9ZwMNGOOi/0UHuZWkpNhwgOEm0kD+Mn1+s a7PNVuWmOGN7lV/8mCkkb/W2nyP/Upntyf5pIA67vJ7DSXIdV9MX4Ub9RNU4etJKIhDb N2I2V7K4ABIFOa0DWogfKOPSOKDrLzMXohn+Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.30.137 with SMTP id k9mr2508724wea.31.1295558090227; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:50 -0800 (PST) Sender: yanegomi@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.254.226 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D38A476.10709@bsdimp.com> References: <201101201830.p0KIUFx9067555@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <4D38A476.10709@bsdimp.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:14:49 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: sGTALlkt80y-nBa1-lVS8RFs0l0 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Warner Losh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weed-whacking sysctl(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:14:51 -0000 On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > On 01/20/2011 11:43, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Garrett Wollman >> =A0wrote: >>> >>> In >>> article, >>> Bruce Evans writes: >>> >>>> Also, it's not Kelvin, but deci-Kelvin :-). >>> >>> If we're being pedantic, the name of the unit is the "kelvin", >>> lowercase "k", and the derived unit is the "decikelvin", lowercase "k" >>> and no hyphen. =A0The unit symbol is "K" (uppercase) for the base unit, >>> "dK" for the derived unit. =A0All SI unit names are in lower case; only >>> the symbols are (sometimes) capitalized if the unit is named after a >>> proper noun. =A0(Thus the symbol for the second is "s"; the symbol "S" >>> is for the Siemens, the unit of conductivity formerly called the >>> "mho".) >> >> >> Tunables support mixed-case units incorrectly as well, i.e. >> 1. 'g' / 'G' -> =A0'giga' >> 2. 'm' / 'M' -> =A0'mega' >> 3. 'k' / 'K' -> =A0'kilo' >> Something that Bruce brought up in another email thread with me. >> > > No. =A0'k' is the proper SI prefix for kilo. =A0And all the SI prefixes a= re > powers of ten only, but that's another can of worms. > > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html 1. 'g' doesn't map to anything. 2. 'm' is incorrect ('milli' vs 'mega'). 3. 'K' doesn't map to anything. That's what I meant. Thanks! -Garrett