From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:53:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070919.165323.127197853.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070918.151528.84360712.davem@davemloft.net> <20070919145900.759ef19e@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> <46F1AEC7.8090604@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ariel.Hendel@sun.com, greg.onufer@sun.com, jeff@garzik.org To: rick.jones2@hp.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54312 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753052AbXISXxY (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:53:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46F1AEC7.8090604@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Rick Jones 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.