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Expand the parameter parsing for block2mtd.  It now accepts:
Ki, Mi, Gi	- the official prefixes for binary multiples,
		  see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html,
ki		- mistake on my side and analog to "k" for decimal multiples,
KiB, MiB, GiB	- for people that prefer to add a "B" for byte,
kiB		- combination of the above.

There were complaints about not accepting "k" for 1024.  This has long
been common practice, but is known to lead to confusion.  Hence the new
SI units and hence block2mtd only accepts units that cannot be confused
with decimal units.  Diverging from common practice doesn't always please
people, even if the change is for the better.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Joern Engel authored and David Woodhouse committed Apr 19, 2006
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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
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* block2mtd.c - create an mtd from a block device
*
* Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Simon Evans <spse@secret.org.uk>
* Copyright (C) 2004,2005 Jörn Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
* Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Jörn Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
*
* Licence: GPL
*/
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}


/* This function works similar to reguler strtoul. In addition, it
* allows some suffixes for a more human-readable number format:
* ki, Ki, kiB, KiB - multiply result with 1024
* Mi, MiB - multiply result with 1024^2
* Gi, GiB - multiply result with 1024^3
*/
static int ustrtoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base)
{
unsigned long result = simple_strtoul(cp, endp, base);
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result *= 1024;
case 'M':
result *= 1024;
case 'K':
case 'k':
result *= 1024;
/* By dwmw2 editorial decree, "ki", "Mi" or "Gi" are to be used. */
if ((*endp)[1] == 'i')
(*endp) += 2;
if ((*endp)[1] == 'i') {
if ((*endp)[2] == 'B')
(*endp) += 3;
else
(*endp) += 2;
}
}
return result;
}
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