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 16:29:07 +0900 Message-ID: <44658AC3.6070400@gmail.com> References: <20060512132437.GB4219@htj.dyndns.org> <20060512122116.152fbe80.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4464E079.1070307@stesmi.com> <446505F8.7020909@gmail.com> <44655CF3.5010101@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.226]:61444 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932374AbWEMH3N (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 03:29:13 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i22so652578wra for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 00:29:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44655CF3.5010101@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Stefan Smietanowski , "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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