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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 :) Jeff - 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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