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 in server-space, but perhaps I'm just out-of-date and there's a fancier 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. -- 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
