Re: [ANNOUNCE] libata: new EH, NCQ, hotplug and PM patches against stable kernel

[Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net>]

Stefan Smietanowski 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?
>
> Actually, pmup?
>
> Sort of describes what it is at the same time. (Alot easier to figure
> out what pmup is than what pms is (in a computer :))

Or PMUL?  MUL is in common usage for the arithmetic multiply sense; 
wouldn't it make sense in the Port Multiplier sense?  Would it get too 
confused with FPMUL?  Too much like an arithmetic operator?

> // Stefan

Matt
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