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 17:15:24 +0900 Message-ID: <4465959C.8040906@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> <44658AC3.6070400@gmail.com> <44658C43.8090305@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 ([64.233.184.237]:57884 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750975AbWEMIPc (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 04:15:32 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i22so656800wra for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 01:15:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44658C43.8090305@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: >> 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. Ah... I've excluded PMP because I thought it was already taken, but, yeah, it wouldn't cause noticeable confusion and fits the best. I'll give PMP a try. -- tejun