The following reply was made to PR kern/32205; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
To: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: re: kern/32205: Use standard units for memory/media sizes 
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:21:53 +1100

 i support this change.  it's the computer folks (us) who caused this by
 using prefixes for 1000 when we meant 1024, not the disk manufacturers.
 (lots of ISP's also count 1,000,000 bytes == 1MB.  i think i've seen SI
 units used in about 5 or 6 programs so far.
 
 KiB/MiB/etc might be kinda silly but i'll take silly over wrong, and to
 me using K/etc for 1024/etc is wrong, even if locally historic with heavy
 usage.  one of K = 1000 vs K = 1024 has to change, and K = 1024 is unlike
 every other instance of K.