netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver

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Message-Id: <20070919.165323.127197853.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:53:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rick.jones2@...com
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ariel.Hendel@....com, greg.onufer@....com, jeff@...zik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Preliminary release of Sun Neptune driver

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...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.
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