From: Stuart Brady <sdb@zubnet.me.uk>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add checkpatch.pl from Linux kernel
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:23:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110109202314.GA17755@zubnet.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D29F477.5010001@mail.berlios.de>
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:46:31PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> I appreciate that it will be possible to use scripts like this one
> for QEMU, too. Let me just add a small remark.
>
> QEMU's root directory is already crowded with too many files
> (at least that's my personal opinion).
>
> Why not use a directory structure similar to Linux and add
> the script to scripts/checkpatch.pl? More scripts will follow,
> e.g. scripts/get_maintainer.pl, and users will know where they
> have to look for these scripts.
I'd agree. We should probably also have a SubmittingPatches file
which mentions the checkpatch script, and also the developers
certificate of origin (which I assume applies to QEMU, but I've
not actually seen that stated anywhere)... Linux's document might
be a good starting point for QEMU.
Would you include scripts that are used when building in this
directory? The scripts that I could find are:
create_config
feature_to_c.sh
hxtool
qemu-binfmt-conf.sh
texi2pod.pl
Linux seems to mix both scripts that a user might run directly, and
scripts that are only using when building, which seems wrong to me.
BTW, I notice that qemu-binfmt-conf.sh could do with some cleanup...
e.g. QEMU might be installed somewhere other than /usr/local/bin,
there's the FIXME against MIPS, readability could be improved, and
quite a few targets are missing. I might have a go at some of this.
Some other suggestions for directories that may make sense:
sysemu/devices/audio
sysemu/devices/input
sysemu/devices/net
sysemu/devices/serial
sysemu/devices/storage
sysemu/devices/video
sysemu/machines
sysemu/migration
targets/x86
targets/*
unit-tests
Placing the *-user and *-softmmu directories into one single directory
would also avoid clutter.
Projects using Automake hide their .d files inside a .deps directory,
so perhaps that would be worth considering.
... and I guess 'Virtual Linux.c' doesn't make much sense now. :-)
Either way, placing scripts that users and developers might well need in
a separate directory (perhaps including examples for tun, etc?) reads
like a good idea to my eyes, anyway.
Cheers,
--
Stuart Brady
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2011-01-09 11:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add checkpatch.pl from Linux kernel Blue Swirl
2011-01-09 17:46 ` Stefan Weil
2011-01-09 20:23 ` Stuart Brady [this message]
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