Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932327AbWEMENo (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932324AbWEMENo (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:44 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:26338 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932323AbWEMENn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: <44655CF3.5010101@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:39 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Stefan Smietanowski , "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> In-Reply-To: <446505F8.7020909@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.0 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1261 Lines: 42 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 :) Jeff - 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/