From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Ariel.Hendel@sun.com, greg.onufer@sun.com, jeff@garzik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:53:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919.165323.127197853.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F1AEC7.8090604@hp.com>
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:20:39 -0700
> so why "niu?" To what does niu translate anyway?
Network Interface Unit. This is what the Niagara-2 programmers manual
refers to the chip as.
I try to name the files for most drivers I write as a 2 or 3 letter
acronyms, it looks so much better than the usual verbose names. It's
very unix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 22:15 [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver David Miller
2007-09-19 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-19 22:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-19 22:11 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-19 22:07 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 22:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-19 23:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-19 23:17 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 23:20 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-19 23:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-09-20 16:06 ` Ariel Hendel
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