Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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in server-space, but perhaps I'm just out-of-date and there's a fancier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

Dan


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