Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932374AbWEMH3O (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 03:29:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932379AbWEMH3O (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 03:29:14 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:56580 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932377AbWEMH3N (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 03:29:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jnOUKL6ssl/Qc0GJC2KppyP3xzKUgzAHdxRyTQP8syBprBB4qP1Wij5oqVPLAf6hQQS2tXLL1EsHvmk1dHrzTybTvXRtfRgfDiunT3FmDPLcf3M9F/ZNZ3Wu8V+9oppYVGbQInJL6N1ct024Ba4YXWgxCURy8pH+N4eGeHzJWYw= Message-ID: <44658AC3.6070400@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 16:29:07 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik 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> <44655CF3.5010101@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <44655CF3.5010101@garzik.org> 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: 1555 Lines: 51 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. -- tejun - 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/