Using _qemu is a little confusing. Let's use _compat for these sorts
of things. We should also mention _impl which is another common suffix
in the code base.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
---
docs/devel/style.rst | 7 +++++++
include/glib-compat.h | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/style.rst b/docs/devel/style.rst
index 9c5c0fffd9..60dfdf9b7f 100644
--- a/docs/devel/style.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/style.rst
@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@ If there are two versions of a function to be called with
or without a
lock held, the function that expects the lock to be already held
usually uses the suffix ``_locked``.
+If a function is a shim designed to deal with compatibility
+workarounds we use the suffix ``_compat``. These are generally not
+called directly and aliased to the plain function name via the
+pre-processor. Another common suffix that is used is ``__impl`` which
+is often used for the concrete implementation of something that has
+multiple potential approaches hidden behind a common function name or
+one that needs expansion via the pre-processor.
Block structure
===============
diff --git a/include/glib-compat.h b/include/glib-compat.h
index 9e95c888f5..9d3eb1b7a0 100644
--- a/include/glib-compat.h
+++ b/include/glib-compat.h
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@
* int g_foo(const char *wibble)
*
* We must define a static inline function with the same signature that does
- * what we need, but with a "_qemu" suffix e.g.
+ * what we need, but with a "_compat" suffix e.g.
*
- * static inline void g_foo_qemu(const char *wibble)
+ * static inline void g_foo_compat(const char *wibble)
* {
* #if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(X, Y, 0)
* g_foo(wibble)
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
* ensuring this wrapper function impl doesn't trigger the compiler warning
* about using too new glib APIs. Finally we can do
*
- * #define g_foo(a) g_foo_qemu(a)
+ * #define g_foo(a) g_foo_compat(a)
*
* So now the code elsewhere in QEMU, which *does* have the
* -Wdeprecated-declarations warning active, can call g_foo(...) as normal,
--
2.30.2
