From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Smietanowski Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 02:20:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4465264D.6050608@stesmi.com> References: <20060512132437.GB4219@htj.dyndns.org> <20060512122116.152fbe80.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4464E079.1070307@stesmi.com> <446505F8.7020909@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig99880D32CE1408EF418A3B78" Return-path: Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:50121 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932224AbWEMAUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 20:20:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <446505F8.7020909@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig99880D32CE1408EF418A3B78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? Actually, pmup? Sort of describes what it is at the same time. (Alot easier to figure out what pmup is than what pms is (in a computer :)) // Stefan --------------enig99880D32CE1408EF418A3B78 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEZSZQBrn2kJu9P78RA+cDAJ4ob4lUFb+voZAKhaMmnCapEweyxQCbBN80 q0Lhk+bDVNG4OhiscWX9BkE= =MaWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig99880D32CE1408EF418A3B78--