Re: [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends VS frontends

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Dienstag, 17. August 2021 14:41:27 CEST Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > > +Overall Audio frontends
> > 
> > I would call that "Audio Hardware Emulation" instead of "Overall Audio
> > frontends".
> > 
> > > +Overall Audio backends
> > 
> > Likewise I would call this section "Shared/common QEMU audio library/
> > subsystem" or something like that instead of "Overall Audio backends".
> 
> Well, frontend/backend is common qemu terminology, with "frontend" being
> the emulated/virtual device as seen by the guest and "backend" being the
> host-side wireup (i.e. -audiodev / -blockdev / -chardev / -netdev / ...)
> 
> take care,
>   Gerd

Yeah, I was seeing this (like usual) more from an external/new developer 
perspective where the semantic for "frontend"/"backend" is not that obvious 
here.

But okay ...

Acked-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck