Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264723AbTFEPrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264726AbTFEPrl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:47:41 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:17337 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264723AbTFEPrl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:47:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:00:07 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel , davem@redhat.com, bcollins@debian.org, tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com, anton@samba.org Subject: Re: /proc/bus/pci Message-ID: <20030605160007.GZ8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel , davem@redhat.com, bcollins@debian.org, tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com, anton@samba.org References: <1054816598.22103.6151.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1437 Lines: 28 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Albert Cahalan wrote: >> Some of the IBMers use "phb" instead of "hose" or "domain". On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:51:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Gods, did they run out of vowels in _that_ part of IBM too? > Where do they go? Is there somebody at IBM that hoards vowels, and will > one day hold the rest of the world hostage? "Mwahahahaa! If you don't buy > support from IBM, you can never use the letter 'A' again! Whahahahhhaah!". > I can see it now. > What the _f*ck_ is wrong with just calling it "PCI domain". It's a fine > word, and yes, "domain" is used commonly in computer language, but that's > a _good_ thing. Everybody immediately understands what it is about. > There is no goodness to acronyms where you have to be some "insider" to > know what the hell it means. That "hose" thing has the same problem: I > don't know about anybody else, but to me a "hose" is a logn narrow conduit > for water, and a "PCI hose" doesn't much make sense to me. > A "phb" just makes me go "Whaa?" I've never seen this; however, I've seen "PCI segment" used in some Intel docs. I do agree that neither "phb" nor "hose" are particularly nice nomenclature. -- wli - 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/