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

[Christian Schoenebeck]

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