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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 02:02:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6ff77c17-5516-e967-27ec-6fb3bf2160d4@redhat.com> (Paolo
	Bonzini's message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:05:00 +0100")
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/47] trace: switch io/ directory to
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

Paolo Bonzini writes:
[...]
> A weird idea: what about doing

>     -DGENERATED_TRACERS_H=\"hw/scsi/generated-tracers.h\"

> and then having

>      #ifdef GENERATED_TRACE_H
>      #include GENERATED_TRACE_H
>      #endif

> in include/trace.h?

> Then you can use full include path for special cases such as
> include/hw/xen/xen_common.h, but the common case is handled directly
> with just

>      #include "trace.h"

> which refers to $(srcdir)/include/trace.h? (Take the above with a grain
> of salt because I haven't reviewed the patches closely).

Feels like too much black magic to me for the benefit of a bit less typing.


Cheers,
  Lluis