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Re: [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends VS frontends
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Christian Schoenebeck |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 1/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends VS frontends |
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:48:37 +0200 |
On Dienstag, 17. August 2021 19:57:21 CEST Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> 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.
No need for now. On the long-term the MAINTAINERS structure might be improved
in some way to make specific tree structures more clear, but for now it's Ok.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck
[PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: Remove SPICE from Audio backends section, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/08/16
[PATCH 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Split Audio backends sections, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/08/16