Re: [PATCH] libxl: move blktap specific code into libxl_blktap.c

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>]

On Thursday 29 July 2010 17:02:25 Ian Jackson wrote:
> Christoph Egger writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: move blktap specific 
code into libxl_blktap.c"):
> > Move blktap specific code into libxl_blktap.c
>
> Thanks, this is going in the right direction.  But can you please
> split up the moving code into a different file, from the changes to
> that code ?
>
> As it is it is almost impossible to see what changes you have made to
> the code you are moving, as we have

Is it enough when I explain the change and adjust the commit message
accordingly ?

The libxl_blktap_devpath implementation merges
get_blktap2_devices() and make_blktap2_devices().

>  diff old-file
>    stuff
>  - old
>  - code
>    more stuff
>  diff new-file
>  + newly
>  + reorganised
>  + code
>
>
> If the code needs to be reorganised so that it can be moved, you
> should do this in two patches, so we end up with:
>
>  [PATCH 1/2] reorganise preparatory to moving
>
>  diff old-file
>    stuff
>  - old
>  + newly
>  + reorganised
>    code
>    more stuff
>
>  [PATCH 2/2] move blktap-specific code to libxl_blktap.c
>  Purely moving code about, no changes.
>
>  diff old-file
>    stuff
>  - newly
>  - reorganised
>  - code
>    old stuff
>  diff new-file
>  + newly
>  + reorganised
>  + code

hmm... doing it vice versa is easier to do because the new code
merges to functions (see above).

First patch contains the move and the second patch contains
the merge.


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