From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:02:32 +0900 Message-ID: <446505F8.7020909@gmail.com> References: <20060512132437.GB4219@htj.dyndns.org> <20060512122116.152fbe80.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4464E079.1070307@stesmi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.199]:46203 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932254AbWELWC5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 18:02:57 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so567738nzn for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:02:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4464E079.1070307@stesmi.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Smietanowski Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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? -- tejun