docs/devel: more documentation on the use of suffixes

Using _qemu is a little confusing. Let's use _compat for these sorts
of things. We should also mention _impl which is another common suffix
in the code base.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220105135009.1584676-25-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/glib-compat.h b/include/glib-compat.h
index 8d01a8c01f..3113a7d2af 100644
--- a/include/glib-compat.h
+++ b/include/glib-compat.h
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@
  *    int g_foo(const char *wibble)
  *
  * We must define a static inline function with the same signature that does
- * what we need, but with a "_qemu" suffix e.g.
+ * what we need, but with a "_compat" suffix e.g.
  *
- * static inline void g_foo_qemu(const char *wibble)
+ * static inline void g_foo_compat(const char *wibble)
  * {
  *     #if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(X, Y, 0)
  *        g_foo(wibble)
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
  * ensuring this wrapper function impl doesn't trigger the compiler warning
  * about using too new glib APIs. Finally we can do
  *
- *   #define g_foo(a) g_foo_qemu(a)
+ *   #define g_foo(a) g_foo_compat(a)
  *
  * So now the code elsewhere in QEMU, which *does* have the
  * -Wdeprecated-declarations warning active, can call g_foo(...) as normal,