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

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

?