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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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