[libvirt] [PATCHv2 01/15] docs: use correct terminology for 1024 bytes

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 14:55:22 UTC 2012


On 03/06/2012 03:34 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:34:16PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> @@ -3619,7 +3619,7 @@ error:
>>   /**
>>    * virDomainSetMaxMemory:
>>    * @domain: a domain object or NULL
>> - * @memory: the memory size in kilobytes
>> + * @memory: the memory size in kibibytes (blocks of 1024)
>
> "of 1024 bytes"? I don't know how this looks to a native speaker, but this
> looks truncated to my French eyes if "bytes" is not there, same for the 2
> other occurrences below.
>
> Christophe

Oh yeah, my geeky brain inferred the bytes part automaticaly when it saw 
the number 1024. Adding the "bytes" makes it more clear for not-so-geeky 
people :).

Eric, could you please add "bytes" to the appropriate places to make it 
more clear.

Peter




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