[PATCH 0/2] Show cylinder sizes properly

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:00:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> This is a seprate series of patches (it's on top of my first series in my 
> tree, but I think it would apply independently) that came out of me 
> looking at our cylinder size handling.
> 
> In particular, it came out of me noticing:
>  "If you pick an existing type without work-pressure (eg a 10 l metric 
>   bottle), it shows that "10 l" wet-size in cubic feet (0.35 cuft). It 
>   should show it as 10 l because we don't have a workpressure, and we 
>   just cannot convert to cuft at all"
> 
> and the first patch here fixes that issue.

But it's lacking localization (which we used to get from the
get_volume_units() function.

> The second patch is kind of a trial balloon, and shouldn't necessarily be 
> taken seriously. What is does is to show *both* the nominal imperial size 
> _and_ the "actual" size of an imperial cylinder. So if you have an AL80, 
> it will now show up as havign the size "80 (77)cuft", where that 77 is our 
> (approximate!) correction for the incompressibility of air.
> 
> I'm not sure it's actually a good idea, but with the first patch done for 
> other reasons, it becomes trivial to show cylinder sizes in any random 
> format, since it's not tied to that "get_volume_string()" that is used for 
> other things too.
> 
> So I think the first patch is a good idea (although somebody should check 
> whether we want to translate the liter and the cubic feet units). The 

Yes we do, I fixed that for you.

> second one is not really serious, and meant more as a "maybe we could talk 
> about something like this" trial balloon.

I think the best way to create conversation about this is for me to apply
it :-)

So that's what I did

/D