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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/17/21 6:12 PM, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> 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.

"Audio Backends" is in the "Subsystems" meta-section, and
"Audio Frontends" in the "Devices" one.

Maybe we using the === separator for meta-sections (like rST)
instead of --- would help seeing the difference.

I don't want to use parenthesis in the descriptions because
this then breaks the get_maintainer.pl output when parsed
by (git) scripts.

> 
> But okay ...
> 
> Acked-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
> 
> Best regards,
> Christian Schoenebeck
> 
>