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

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

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?

PMS is fine.  I encouraged the use of "UFO" for "UDP Fragmentation 
Offload" in network driver land, and it stuck.

This is Linux, we like to have fun around here :)

	Jeff



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