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

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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.

To make it more difficult:  Honestly, I prefer Port MultiPlier (PMP), 
imitating (and perhaps overloading) the acronym used by the standard 
SATA FIS field.

:)

	Jeff