Re: [Qemu-devel] [EXTERNAL]Re: Proposal for amending TCG interface naming scheme

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 17:44, David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 20.08.19 18:38, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> >> From: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> Sorry to comment on this without really knowing what is it about but maybe
> >> my view is not completely useless if this is to be understood by people
> >> who don't know anything about it. If it is not useful just ignore.
> >
> > No, Zoltan, to the contrary, you hit the nail - the good interface scheme
> > should look natural even for people not acquainted with the gory details
> > of the area.
> >
>
> I just got familiar with the terminology and everything I read so far
> confuses me even more (gather/pick/extend/extl/shrd). No, I don't like that.

FWIW the way I tend to approach these is to say "I want to do
$WHATEVER, surely we must have a tcg op for that, it's probably
got 'ext' in it, search through tcg/README to find something
that seems like it matches what I want to do"...

thanks
-- PMM