From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52501) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkCRF-0004mS-Ej for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:03:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkCR8-0006bw-SH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:03:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:28795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkCPc-0005x1-2G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:01:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:02:25 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20130605120225.GB2643@redhat.com> References: <1370371954-8479-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <51AF09FC.50308@suse.de> <20130605111044.GL31830@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/39] Delay destruction of memory regions to instance_finalize List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 5 June 2013 12:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > unrealize is not a word in english: >=20 > The OED says: > # un=CB=88realize, v. > # trans. To make unreal; to deprive of reality. >=20 > with the earliest citation from 1804. >=20 > so if it seems like the best term (and it does make > clear the pairing with realize, which I think is > a strong argument) we should go ahead and use it. >=20 > thanks > -- PMM realize is a bad name too. what does it mean? make real? It's still all virtual ... If we want it to mean hide from guest/expose to guest, then why not call it like this? expose_to_guest unexpose_to_guest finalize is even more ambigous, and not pairing with anything as far as I could see. --=20 MST