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DateSat, 13 May 2006 17:15:24 +0900
FromTejun Heo <>
SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:>> Jeff Garzik wrote:>>> Tejun Heo wrote:>>>> Stefan Smietanowski wrote:>>>>> Randy.Dunlap wrote:>>>>>>> * New error handling>>>>>>> * IRQ driven PIO (from Albert Lee)>>>>>>> * SATA NCQ support>>>>>>> * Hotplug support>>>>>>> * Port Multiplier support>>>>>>>>>>>> BTW, we often use PM to mean Power Management.>>>>>> Could we find a different acronym for Port Multiplier support,
>>>>>> such as PMS or PX or PXS?>>>>>>>>>> Ok, maybe not PMS ?>>>>>>>>>> Can you imagine a bug report from someone that "has problem with PMS"?
>>>>> :)>>>>>>>>>>>>> Would be fun though.  :)>>>>>>>> I thought about using another acronym for port multiplier too.  But 
>>>> the spec uses that acronym all over the place, PM, PMP (Port 
>>>> Multiplier Portnumber), which reminds me of USB full/high speed fiasco.
>>>>>>>> Urghh... I thought we could use power for power management inside 
>>>> libata but that might be a bad idea.  So, PMS?>>>>>> PMS is fine.  I encouraged the use of "UFO" for "UDP Fragmentation 
>>> Offload" in network driver land, and it stuck.
>>>
>>> This is Linux, we like to have fun around here :)
>>>>>>> Currently, the candidates are...>>>> px    : short (good), but I don't know, not pretty>> pmul    : okay but a bit too long>> pml    : pretty and official>> pms    : pretty and fun>>>> I think I'll go with either pms or pml.  Man, this decision is difficult.> > To make it more difficult:  Honestly, I prefer Port MultiPlier (PMP), 
> imitating (and perhaps overloading) the acronym used by the standard 
> SATA FIS field.

Ah... I've excluded PMP because I thought it was already taken, but, 
yeah, it wouldn't cause noticeable confusion and fits the best.  I'll 
give PMP a try.

-- 
tejun
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