On 21/10/25 15:58, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi
On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
* Peter Maydell ([email protected]) wrote:
Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]> 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
?
