From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:56:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1255460169.13438.4.camel@achroite> References: <20091012184711.GA4836@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091012190900.GA514@kroah.com> <1255376510.3956.1@mofo> <1255457860.2196.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Karl O. Pinc" , Greg KH , Narendra K , notting@redhat.com, matt_domsch@dell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@dell.com, charles_rose@dell.com To: Dan Williams Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1255457860.2196.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-hotplug-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:17 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:41 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 10/12/2009 02:09:00 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > "LOM"? > > > > "LAN On Motherboard" of all things. > > > > (I had to look this > > one up. The expansion better suited > > to today's economy is "Low On Manna".) > > Or the previous usage from Sun, Apple, and others: "Lights Out > Management". Not sure why they needed to clash with a name already used > in server-space, but perhaps I'm just out-of-date and there's a fancier > name for LOM these days, and LOM got repurposed. It's widely used with both meanings - what's more, LOM is an expected feature of LOMs. :-) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.