Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 16:29:07 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel |
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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.
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