Re: [PATCH] devtools: add E-Switch keyword for commit checks

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

24/02/2022 20:20, Ajit Khaparde:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:07 AM Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > ++ adding more people here,
> >
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > 24/02/2022 10:26, Raslan Darawsheh:
> > > > This adds the syntax for E-Switch to have check on how it suppose to
> > > > be for commits
> > > [...]
> > > > +E-Switch
> > >
> > > It looks Mellanox people use this syntax in Linux kernel as well.
> > > Where does it come from? Is it a Mellanox-only wording?
> 
> I think it was coined around the time when Mellanox submitted the
> kernel driver patchset in 2015.
> https://lwn.net/Articles/666180/
> 
> I think it has become a fairly used term since that time.
> 
> > >
> > I don't think it's a Mellanox only wording see the following:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/devlink/devlink-port.html?#devlink-port
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev.html
> >
> > > Intuitively, I would have written it eSwitch generally.
> > I would go with E-Switch
> > > It means "embedded switch", right?
> > In kernel,  it's Ethernet Switch device.
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev.html

Forgotten and Applied (very late), thanks.