On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:07 AM Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> ++ adding more people here,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 11:36 AM
> > To: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; ferruh.yigit@intel.com; Gal Cohen (ProdM)
> > <galco@nvidia.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] devtools: add E-Switch keyword for commit checks
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> Kindest regards,
> Raslan Darawsheh