Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make: automatically include dependencies in recursive subdir rules (v2)

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 18.06.2012 12:56, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 18 June 2012 11:42, Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
>> Am 18.06.2012 11:31, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>>> (Does architecture-specific separation make much sense in general?
>>> Not all devices are architecture-specific. I'd have thought that
>>> a functional split eg timer/serial/usb like the linux kernel layout
>>> would be better.)
>>
>> Maybe you're misreading me? I was saying iff a device is specifically
>> (not accidentally) for one target foo then it may/should be placed into
>> hw/foo/ directory.
> 
> Yes, I'm saying that seems like a confusing split, because a few
> devices for target foo will be in hw/foo and a number more in hw/,
> and there'll probably be cases where something in hw/foo has to
> move out into hw/ when a new target comes along that happens to
> reuse it. So rather than having hw/foo where foo == target-name,
> I'm suggesting hw/foo where foo == kind-of-device. As you say
> we've already moved a bit down this road with usb, for instance.

But the point is that hw/foo/ is required for the new Makefile system,
so we have the empty folders anyway, whereas putting target-specific
stuff into, e.g., hw/apic/ will not solve the dependency issue that I
tracked down here.
If you do have an automated solution to that, please spill it out. :)

Andreas

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