[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] udev: use "bit" as unit for network card speeds

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 12.11.13 05:49, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at inai.de) wrote:

> Given a card that can do 100 Mbit/s, that would be about 12.5 MByte/s,
> but you cannot seriously expect me to use that value. Although it is
> quite compelling for 40 Gbit/s because that divides nicely to 5
> GByte/sec, and we will be seeing increasing speeds :)

Hmm, so, for the byte options we actually used a syntax where the unit
factor was included in the value, not the key. For example, in
journald.conf you can write SystemMaxUse=100M to express that 100MBytes
at max are used for system journals. 

I am not entirely sure what this means for the network configuration
bits.

Maybe "BitsPerSecond=100M" to indicate 100MBit? It might be nicer to
allow this given that there are Gigabit links too ("BitsPerSecond=4G")
and (at least in theory) much slower links too ("BitsPerSecond=28800"). 

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat