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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> 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.
>
> To make it more difficult: Honestly, I prefer Port MultiPlier (PMP),
> imitating (and perhaps overloading) the acronym used by the standard
> SATA FIS field.

Ah... I've excluded PMP because I thought it was already taken, but,
yeah, it wouldn't cause noticeable confusion and fits the best. I'll
give PMP a try.

--
tejun
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