From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ariel Hendel Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:06:20 -0700 Message-ID: <46F29A7C.8040801@sun.com> References: <20070918.151528.84360712.davem@davemloft.net> <20070919145900.759ef19e@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> <46F1AEC7.8090604@hp.com> <20070919.165323.127197853.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: Ariel.Hendel@SUN.COM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Greg.Onufer@SUN.COM, jeff@garzik.org, Matheos.Worku@SUN.COM To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from brmea-mail-2.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.43]:37693 "EHLO brmea-mail-2.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754802AbXITQp5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:45:57 -0400 Received: from fe-amer-10.sun.com ([192.18.109.80]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l8KG6cVU012263 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:06:38 GMT Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0JOO00J01CC4YU00@mail-amer.sun.com> (original mail from Ariel.Hendel@Sun.COM) for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:06:38 -0600 (MDT) In-reply-to: <20070919.165323.127197853.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Thanks Dave for your preliminary posting of the driver. I am copying Matheos Worku. Matheos is intimately familiar with the Neptune/NIU family of devices and their respective drivers. Not only he can be a good reviewer, he can also clarify issues around naming and so on. I agree that Neptune is just an overused internal codename not worth propagating in the code. Please feel free to add Matheos.Worku@Sun.COM to the reviewers list. Ariel David Miller wrote: > 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.