Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 03:35:31 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel |
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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.
:)
Jeff
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