Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751315AbWEMBhd (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 21:37:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751318AbWEMBhd (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 21:37:33 -0400 Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.211]:21857 "HELO smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751314AbWEMBhc (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 21:37:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4465389B.3070606@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 20:38:35 -0500 From: Matthew Frost Reply-To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Smietanowski CC: Tejun Heo , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel References: <20060512132437.GB4219@htj.dyndns.org> <20060512122116.152fbe80.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4464E079.1070307@stesmi.com> <446505F8.7020909@gmail.com> <4465264D.6050608@stesmi.com> In-Reply-To: <4465264D.6050608@stesmi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 48 Stefan Smietanowski 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? > > 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 :)) > Or PMUL? MUL is in common usage for the arithmetic multiply sense; wouldn't it make sense in the Port Multiplier sense? Would it get too confused with FPMUL? Too much like an arithmetic operator? > // Stefan Matt - 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/