Re: [RFC PATCH 01/22] thunderbolt: Introduce tb_switch_is_icm()

[Mika Westerberg]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 01:36:49PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:47 AM
> > To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andreas Noever; Michael Jamet; Yehezkel Bernat;
> > Rajmohan Mani; Nicholas Johnson; Lukas Wunner; Alan Stern; Limonciello, Mario;
> > Anthony Wong; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/22] thunderbolt: Introduce tb_switch_is_icm()
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> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:10:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 02:38:09PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > > We currently differentiate between SW CM and ICM by looking directly at
> > >
> > > You should spell out what "SW CM" and "ICM" means please :)
> > 
> > Indeed, sorry about that. I will spell them out in next version.
> > 
> > SW CM is Software Connection manager, essentially
> > drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c.
> 
> In some of the documentation I've seen non-internal connection manager referred to
> as ECM, which I guess is an external connection manager?  To be consistent with various
> documentations maybe that would be better than "SW CM".

That's the first time I hear about ECM ;-)

Here at Intel we use term "SW CM" and "FW CM" and IMHO they are better
than ECM/ICM. But if people insist I can change them.