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

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Jeff Garzik 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?
> 
> 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 :)
> 

Currently, the candidates are...

px	: short (good), but I don't know, not pretty
pmul	: okay but a bit too long
pml	: pretty and official
pms	: pretty and fun

I think I'll go with either pms or pml.  Man, this decision is difficult.

-- 
tejun