Re: [PATCH v3 06/27] thunderbolt: Rework capability handling

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sun Jun 04 2017 - 14:28:12 EST


On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 06:00:02PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 03:52:29PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:05:03PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> > > Organization of the capabilities in switches and ports is not so random
>> > > after all. Rework the capability handling functionality so that it
>> > > follows how capabilities are organized and provide two new functions
>> > > (tb_switch_find_vsec_cap() and tb_port_find_cap()) which can be used to
>> > ^^^^^^^^
>> >
>> > I assume VSEC is the same acronym as in the PCIe spec, so this naming
>> > scheme results in "vendor specific extended capability capability",
>> > which is maybe a bit odd.
>>
>> AFAIK it comes from Vendor SpEcifiC but I'm not 100% sure ;-) The Alpine
>> Ridge datasheet calls it also VSEC capability which is why we chose the
>> naming accordingly.
>
> That said, it could also come from Vendor SpEcific Capability. I can
> change it to tb_switch_find_vsec() if that works better.

I would folllow PCI existing namings, i.e.
_vse_cap()

_vse_capability() also possible, but too long to me.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko