From: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
"Volker Rümelin" <vr_qemu@t-online.de>,
clamky@hotmail.com, "Yonggang Luo" <luoyonggang@gmail.com>,
"Kővágó Zoltán" <dirty.ice.hu@gmail.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends VS frontends
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:12:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2098132.JuaFiSchrr@silver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210817124127.2ip6fq2ndlubqn5s@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
On Dienstag, 17. August 2021 14:41:27 CEST Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > +Overall Audio frontends
> >
> > I would call that "Audio Hardware Emulation" instead of "Overall Audio
> > frontends".
> >
> > > +Overall Audio backends
> >
> > Likewise I would call this section "Shared/common QEMU audio library/
> > subsystem" or something like that instead of "Overall Audio backends".
>
> Well, frontend/backend is common qemu terminology, with "frontend" being
> the emulated/virtual device as seen by the guest and "backend" being the
> host-side wireup (i.e. -audiodev / -blockdev / -chardev / -netdev / ...)
>
> take care,
> Gerd
Yeah, I was seeing this (like usual) more from an external/new developer
perspective where the semantic for "frontend"/"backend" is not that obvious
here.
But okay ...
Acked-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-17 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-16 19:10 [PATCH 0/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio section Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-16 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends VS frontends Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-17 11:31 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-08-17 12:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-08-17 16:12 ` Christian Schoenebeck [this message]
2021-08-17 17:57 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-18 12:48 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-08-16 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Remove SPICE from Audio backends section Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-17 11:32 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-08-16 19:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends sections Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-17 11:41 ` Christian Schoenebeck
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