linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] fpga manager: Add Altera CvP driver

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:00:24 +0200
From:   Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org, Alan Tull <atull@...nel.org>,
        Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        matthew.gerlach@...ux.intel.com, yi1.li@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] fpga manager: Add Altera CvP driver

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:44:19 +0300
Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@...il.com wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 02:38:55 +0300
>> Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@...il.com wrote:  
>>>On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de> wrote:  
>>>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 20:43:21 +0300
>>>> Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@...il.com wrote:  
>
>>>Besides below comments, please, do
>>>
>>>s/VSEC_/VSE_/g
>>>
>>>for entire file.
>>>
>>>We are following PCI and Thunderbolt pattern for use of Vendor
>>>Specific Extended Capability.  
>>
>> I can do it, but I'm just not getting why. The registers are named as VSEC
>> registers in the documentation, why should the code name them differently?  
>
>Does your documentation decode VSEC abbreviation?
>What C stands for? Capability?

the CvP user guide talks about Vendor Specific Extended Capability (VSEC).

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Anatolij