From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:17:40 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-Id: <1255457860.2196.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20091012184711.GA4836@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091012190900.GA514@kroah.com> <1255376510.3956.1@mofo> In-Reply-To: <1255376510.3956.1@mofo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Karl O. Pinc" Cc: Greg KH , Narendra K , notting@redhat.com, matt_domsch@dell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@dell.com, charles_rose@dell.com On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:41 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 10/12/2009 02:09:00 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > "LOM"? > > "LAN On Motherboard" of all things. > > (I had to look this > one up. The expansion better suited > to today's economy is "Low On Manna".) Or the previous usage from Sun, Apple, and others: "Lights Out Management". Not sure why they needed to clash with a name already used in server-space, but perhaps I'm just out-of-date and there's a fancier name for LOM these days, and LOM got repurposed. Dan