Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 10/10] monitor: Split out monitor/core.c

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Kevin Wolf (kwolf@redhat.com) wrote:
> Am 07.06.2019 um 19:29 hat Dr. David Alan Gilbert geschrieben:
> > * Kevin Wolf (kwolf@redhat.com) wrote:
> > > Move the monitor core infrastructure from monitor/misc.c to
> > > monitor/core.c. This is code that can be shared for all targets, so
> > > compile it only once.
> > > 
> > > What remains in monitor/misc.c after this patch is mostly monitor
> > > command implementations and code that requires a system emulator or is
> > > even target-dependent.
> > > 
> > > The amount of function and particularly extern variables in
> > > monitor_int.h is probably a bit larger than it needs to be, but this way
> > > no non-trivial code modifications are needed. The interfaces between all
> > > monitor parts can be cleaned up later.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > 
> > OK, but can you call it anything other than core.* - I regularly end up
> > deleting things like that!
> 
> Oh, I didn't even think of this kind of core.*!
> 
> I imagine in practice it wouldn't be so bad to have a monitor/core.c
> because it's in a subdirectory, and it's under version control anyway.
> We already seem to have quite a few of them in subdirectories:
> 
>     ./hw/acpi/core.c
>     ./hw/bt/core.c
>     ./hw/cpu/core.c
>     ./hw/i2c/core.c
>     ./hw/ide/core.c
>     ./hw/sd/core.c
>     ./hw/usb/core.c

Yes, they all annoy me in the same way :-)

> But I'll gladly rename it if I can find a good name. Do you have any
> suggestions? Maybe just monitor/monitor.c?

Yes that's fine, thanks!

Dave

> Kevin
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