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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 11:23:46 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
To: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@emc.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] NTB: Add NTB hardware abstraction layer
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These refer to English text usage (doc, comments, Kconfig help), not C code:

  s/ntb/NTB/ (except where it refers directly to the driver)
  s/pci/PCI/
  s/PCI-E/PCIe/
  s/api/API/
  s/intel/Intel/

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:44:29AM -0400, Allen Hubbe wrote:
> Abstract the ntb device behind a programming interface, so that it can
> support different hardware.  Change the intel hardware driver to fit the
> abstraction.
> 
> Expose the ntb hardware api to client drivers instead of tying it to
> ntb_transport.  Make ntb_transport a client of the ntb hardware api.