Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:56:09 +0100

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 in server-space, but perhaps I'm just out-of-date and there's a fancier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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