* 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' Dave > thanks > -- PMM -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ \ dave @ treblig.org | | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/
