Re: [PATCH] char: rename CharBackend->CharFrontend

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/...)

Or something more descriptive like 'CharGuestSide'

Dave

> thanks
> -- PMM
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