From: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
To: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: rename CharBackend->CharFrontend
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:30:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMxuvaz8GueSp-vPHFWnbv+Odcy63Cz_hZHd3NzReWXp3pnsqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01a51fe7-4414-e787-ddf5-5ede0c1e1e74@eik.bme.hu>
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Hi
On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2025, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> >
> > /**
> > - * struct CharBackend - back end as seen by front end
> > + * struct CharFrontend - back end as seen by front end
>
> I stopped here, haven't read the rest of the patch but the above comment
> seems to become inconsistent. Which is the front end and back end now?
>
>
It's the "frontend side" of a chardev "backend". Naming it CharBackend has
always been the source of confusion, since the actual backend is Chardev.
There was earlier attempt to rename it and various complains. I believe
this is is long overdue.
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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
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 [this message]
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