From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933504AbcHaLfS (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:35:18 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33674 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933140AbcHaLfP (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:35:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:35:23 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Amir Levy Cc: andreas.noever@gmail.com, bhelgaas@google.com, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, thunderbolt-linux@intel.com, mika.westerberg@intel.com, tomas.winkler@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/8] thunderbolt: Networking state machine Message-ID: <20160831113523.GF17607@kroah.com> References: <1470054233-4309-1-git-send-email-amir.jer.levy@intel.com> <1470054233-4309-6-git-send-email-amir.jer.levy@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1470054233-4309-6-git-send-email-amir.jer.levy@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 03:23:50PM +0300, Amir Levy wrote: > Negotiation states that a peer goes through in order to establish > the communication with the second peer. I can not parse that sentance, what exactly does that mean? > This includes communication with upper layer and additional > infrastructure support to communicate with the second peer through ICM. This too is unparsable. Please explain what this patch does in terms that are understandable for someone with at least a passing understanding of hardware busses. As it is, I have no idea what this patch does at all, and I should be your target audience for this changelog. thanks, greg k-h