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Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>:
> Is the help file even currently accurate with this extra distinction made?  

Not completely, but that's because in some cases I don't know whether decimal
or binary multiples are involved.  Where that is the case I have left the
ambiguous terminology in place.

> And you've already implied you want to change the symbol set for 
> CONFIG_NINO_4MB and such.  How deeply into the kernel will these changes go?

I don't know yet.  I can only clean up the bits for which I am maintainer.
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