Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel

[Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net>]

Stefan Smietanowski 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?
> 
> 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 :))
> 

Or PMUL?  MUL is in common usage for the arithmetic multiply sense; 
wouldn't it make sense in the Port Multiplier sense?  Would it get too 
confused with FPMUL?  Too much like an arithmetic operator?

> // Stefan

Matt