Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] plugins: generate list of symbols automatically

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> writes:

> Now that meson build for plugins was merged, we can cleanup another part with
> the symbols file.
> It has to be kept in sync between the header (qemu-plugin.h) and the symbols
> file. This has proved to be error prone and tedious.
>
> We solve this by generating this list from header directly using a python
> script. Dependencies are triggered correctly, and the file is regenerated if the
> header is modified, as expected.
>
> Pierrick Bouvier (3):
>   plugins: add missing export for qemu_plugin_num_vcpus
>   plugins: detect qemu plugin API symbols from header
>   plugins: eradicate qemu-plugins.symbols static file
>
>  MAINTAINERS                    |  1 +
>  include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h     |  1 +
>  plugins/meson.build            | 12 +++++--

this failed to apply cleanly. 

>  plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols   | 59 ----------------------------------
>  scripts/qemu-plugin-symbols.py | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols
>  create mode 100755 scripts/qemu-plugin-symbols.py

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro