Message-ID: <4465264D.6050608@stesmi.com>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 02:20:29 +0200
From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
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To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
CC: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against
 stable kernel
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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?

Actually, pmup?

Sort of describes what it is at the same time. (Alot easier to figure
out what pmup is than what pms is (in a computer :))

// Stefan

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