Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 17:15:24 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel |
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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.
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