Linux 5.15 Adding Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.15 Adding Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)

Linux 5.15 is positioned now to see a Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) implementation with the code now queued in net-next with this being a protocol for communication between management controllers and managed devices...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-MCTP

[tildearrow]

Hmmm... Management Component Transport Protocol?
Sounds like a protocol to transport/deliver/ship management devices. But why doesn't this work with trucks, bikes, airplanes, ships and cars?

It should have been called Management Component Control Protocol instead.