Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/21] QEMU Object Model

[Anthony Liguori]

On 07/25/2011 08:08 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.07.2011 14:45, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Okay, if it isn't possible with reasonable effort, I guess we'll have to
> bite the bullet and give it a very careful manual review immediately
> before the merge.
>
> By the way, I see that you create new directories. You probably have an
> idea of what the directory structure will look like after the whole
> conversion is completed. Can you share this idea with us?

Just the logic extension of what we have already:

block/
chrdrv/
net/
qom/
qapi/
devices/
  \  pc/
   | pci/
   | scsi/
   | etc.

> > I think Foo and FooClass is better because Foo is the most common usage
> > of the type and it's less characters to type.
>
> Maybe. But then, CharDriver is a really bad names for an instance. There
> is only one driver, which made it a good name for the class until now.
> Maybe CharBackend and CharBackendClass (or CharBackendDriver) would be a
> more sensible replacement that follows your pattern.

Good suggestion.  I've been thinking that there's like to be a need for 
a generic Backend base class too so that would work well from a naming 
convention perspective.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin