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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/10/25 15:58, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * 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'
> If we are talking about the Chardev frontend or user, that's too
> restrictive. We have generic stream handling code (think
> mux/hub/tests/client/server etc) that do not fit that usage naming.
Isn't it

- backend -> host adapter
- frontend -> implementation used by guest

?