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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:56:09 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@...e.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
Narendra K <Narendra_K@...l.com>, notting@...hat.com,
matt_domsch@...l.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
shemminger@...tta.com, linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org,
jordan_hargrave@...l.com, charles_rose@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:17 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:41 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > On 10/12/2009 02:09:00 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > "LOM"?
> >
> > "LAN On Motherboard" of all things.
> >
> > (I had to look this
> > one up. The expansion better suited
> > to today's economy is "Low On Manna".)
>
> Or the previous usage from Sun, Apple, and others: "Lights Out
> Management". Not sure why they needed to clash with a name already used
> in server-space, but perhaps I'm just out-of-date and there's a fancier
> name for LOM these days, and LOM got repurposed.
It's widely used with both meanings - what's more, LOM is an expected
feature of LOMs. :-)
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
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