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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	olsonse@umich.edu, hsweeten@visionengravers.com,
	abbotti@mev.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Capitalize macro name to fix camelcase checkpatch warning
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 22:31:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191006213108.GJ26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191006184903.12089-1-jbi.octave@gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 07:49:03PM +0100, Jules Irenge wrote:

[mA vs. MA]

Table 5.  SI prefixes
Factor	Name 	Symbol
....
10^6	mega	M
....
10^-3	milli	m

Confusing one for another (especially for electrical units) can be...
spectacular.  FYI, 1mA is more or less what you get if you lick
the terminals of a 9V battery; 1MA is about 30 times the current
in typical lightning strike...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-06 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-06 18:49 [PATCH] staging: comedi: Capitalize macro name to fix camelcase checkpatch warning Jules Irenge
2019-10-06 19:07 ` Greg KH
2019-10-07 15:33   ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve ignoring CamelCase SI style variants like mA Joe Perches
2019-10-06 21:31 ` Al Viro [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-06 18:48 [PATCH] staging: comedi: Capitalize macro name to fix camelcase checkpatch warning Jules Irenge
2019-10-06 18:45 Jules Irenge

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