Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:39 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel |
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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
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