From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: rename CharBackend->CharFrontend
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:53:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-jPE_onLYLMxgcAOB7dWRXOLJrWcGPnR0NUdjYytPDVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251021122533.721467-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> wrote:
> The actual backend is "Chardev", CharBackend is the frontend side of it,
> let's rename it for readability.
I always thought the "frontend" was the device the guest
saw (the 16650 UART or whatever). invocation.html has bits
talking about "virtio hvc console frontend device" which
seem like they also use that terminology.
If we want to clean up the naming it might be helpful to have
a comment somewhere documenting the different components and
what names we give them and how they fit together (or even
better, something in docs/devel/...)
thanks
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-21 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-21 12:25 [PATCH] char: rename CharBackend->CharFrontend marcandre.lureau
2025-10-21 12:53 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2025-10-21 13:49 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-10-21 13:58 ` Marc-André Lureau
2025-10-21 14:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-10-21 14:27 ` Marc-André Lureau
2025-10-21 15:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2025-10-21 13:25 ` BALATON Zoltan
2025-10-21 13:30 ` Marc-André Lureau
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