RE: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH] virtio-network: Avoid confusion between a card and a device

[Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>]

> From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 6:33 AM
> 
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 12:05:51AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> >
> >
> > > From: virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > <virtio-comment@lists.oasis- open.org> On Behalf Of Michael S.
> > > Tsirkin
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 08:30:10PM +0200, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > > Ethernet card is a relatively vague term in context of virtio
> > > > network device specification. A Ethernet card in the industry has
> > > > one to multiple ports, one to multiple PCI functions.
> > >
> > > Is this the terminology that IEEE uses?
> >
> > I do not know if the IEEE has defined Ethernet _card_ per say.
> 
> What terminology does it use? I don't have a spec to hand - does not it talk
> about host adapters?
No. In context of IEEE spec 802.3 and 802.1q ocean, there are various terms that address the network device of the host as below.
Mac service providers, link peers, mac client, end station port depending on the part of the spec you refer to.

Virtio spec only refers to the MAC address portion of the IEEE 802.3 spec.