small diff in reported GiB size of an SSD

DISCUSSION Toralf Förster 2 participants 3 messages Feb 29, 2016 SCSI

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Toralf Förster

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2016-02-29 13:31 UTC #0 lore raw

I'm just curious about this diff in dmesg output between 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 at a 64 bit Gentoo hardened system:

$ diff dmesg-4.4.[23]-hardened | grep logical
< sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/223 GiB)

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sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/224 GiB)

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James Bottomley

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2016-02-29 15:49 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 9 lines · Toralf Förster

I'm just curious about this diff in dmesg output between 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 at a 64 bit Gentoo hardened system:
$ diff dmesg-4.4.[23]-hardened | grep logical
< sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/223
GiB)
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sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/224 GiB)

commit 564b026fbd0d28e9f70fb3831293d2922bb7855b

Author: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jan 20 14:58:29 2016 -0800

string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs

James

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Toralf Förster

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2016-02-29 15:53 UTC #2 lore raw

James Bottomley:

Quoted 10 lines · Toralf Förster

commit 564b026fbd0d28e9f70fb3831293d2922bb7855b
Author: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jan 20 14:58:29 2016 -0800
string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs
James

cool - thx

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