From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:39 -0400 Message-ID: <44655CF3.5010101@garzik.org> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:26338 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932323AbWEMENn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 00:13:43 -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: Stefan Smietanowski , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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