Previously |type| was used to identify the type of a CDM (e.g. Widevine, or Clear Key CDM). As of 5591646b86cd3526357b2775b850bcdb2189a5b4, we use CdmInfo.guid to uniquely identify the type of a CDM to be able to run different CDMs in different processes. Also, GUID is a much better ID than the |type|, which is a free format text string.
With that, we don't need the |type| anymore. However, we still need a display name for the CDM type for various purposes. For example, in the future, we could use this name as the CDM process name.
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, Oct 5 2017