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helo=mail-wr1-x42d.google.com", "X-Spam_score_int": "-20", "X-Spam_score": "-2.1", "X-Spam_bar": "--", "X-Spam_report": "(-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1,\n DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1,\n RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001,\n SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no", "X-Spam_action": "no action", "X-BeenThere": "qemu-devel@nongnu.org", "X-Mailman-Version": "2.1.29", "Precedence": "list", "List-Id": "qemu development <qemu-devel.nongnu.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/options/qemu-devel>,\n <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>", "List-Archive": "<https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel>", "List-Post": "<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=help>", "List-Subscribe": "<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,\n <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=subscribe>", "Errors-To": "qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org", "Sender": "qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org" }, "content": "We have a set of binaries that we call \"tools\": they're built based on\nthe --enable-tools/--disable-tools configure setting, they're\ndocumented in docs/tools, and they're standalone executables of one\nform or another.\n\nCurrently the sources for these are a bit scattered: many still in the\ntop level source directory, some in contrib, one or two actually in\nthe tools directory.\n\nAs an initial attempt at cleanup, this patchset moves the sources for\nqemu-bridge-helper, qemu-edid, qemu-img, qemu-io, qemu-nbd,\nqemu-keymap, qemu-vmsr-helper and elf2dmp into the tools/ directory.\n\nThe patchseries also moves the ebfp skeleton sources from tools/ebpf/\nto ebpf/bpf-src/, because this isn't a tool by the above definition.\n\nAs per my thread from a while back, I would ultimately like us to\nclean up contrib/:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAFEAcA_5HvGriDsWnb1ALuA_dgG320eKv7yuM2kThv=rfOSZQA@mail.gmail.com/\nBut parts of that clearly need more discussion. So this is just doing\nsome parts that I hope are not controversial.\n\nAnnoyingly, meson doesn't seem to provide any way for a subdirectory\nmeson.build to say \"the foo.c in this subdir builds into a foo\nexecutable that lives at the top level of the builddir\". And we have a\nlot of test harness stuff plus user muscle memory that assumes that\nqemu-img and qemu-io live there. So the build runes for these tools\nhave to stay in the top level meson.build (and tools/meson.build\nremains an empty file). The exception is that contrib/elf2dmp/elf2dmp\nis now tools/elf2dmp/elf2dmp, but I think the set of people who were\nrunning that from the build directory will be small.\n\nthanks\n-- PMM\n\n\nPeter Maydell (9):\n ebpf: move ebpf skeleton source to ebpf/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-bridge-helper sources to tools/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-edid sources to tools/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-img sources to tools/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-io sources to tools/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-nbd sources to tools/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-keymap sources to tools/ directory\n tools: Move qemu-vmsr-helper up a directory level\n tools: Move elf2dmp from contrib/ to tools/\n\n MAINTAINERS | 15 +++++++-------\n docs/tools/qemu-img.rst | 2 +-\n {tools/ebpf => ebpf/bpf-src}/Makefile.ebpf | 2 +-\n {tools/ebpf => ebpf/bpf-src}/rss.bpf.c | 0\n meson.build | 20 +++++++++----------\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/addrspace.c | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/addrspace.h | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/download.c | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/download.h | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/err.h | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/kdbg.h | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/main.c | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/meson.build | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/pdb.c | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/pdb.h | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/pe.h | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.c | 0\n {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.h | 0\n .../qemu-bridge-helper.c | 0\n qemu-edid.c => tools/qemu-edid.c | 0\n qemu-img-cmds.hx => tools/qemu-img-cmds.hx | 0\n qemu-img.c => tools/qemu-img.c | 0\n qemu-io-cmds.c => tools/qemu-io-cmds.c | 0\n qemu-io.c => tools/qemu-io.c | 0\n qemu-keymap.c => tools/qemu-keymap.c | 0\n qemu-nbd.c => tools/qemu-nbd.c | 0\n tools/{i386 => }/qemu-vmsr-helper.c | 0\n tools/{i386 => }/rapl-msr-index.h | 0\n 28 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)\n rename {tools/ebpf => ebpf/bpf-src}/Makefile.ebpf (96%)\n rename {tools/ebpf => ebpf/bpf-src}/rss.bpf.c (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/addrspace.c (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/addrspace.h (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/download.c (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/download.h (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/err.h (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/kdbg.h (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/main.c (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/meson.build (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/pdb.c (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/pdb.h (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/pe.h (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.c (100%)\n rename {contrib => tools}/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.h (100%)\n rename qemu-bridge-helper.c => tools/qemu-bridge-helper.c (100%)\n rename qemu-edid.c => tools/qemu-edid.c (100%)\n rename qemu-img-cmds.hx => tools/qemu-img-cmds.hx (100%)\n rename qemu-img.c => tools/qemu-img.c (100%)\n rename qemu-io-cmds.c => tools/qemu-io-cmds.c (100%)\n rename qemu-io.c => tools/qemu-io.c (100%)\n rename qemu-keymap.c => tools/qemu-keymap.c (100%)\n rename qemu-nbd.c => tools/qemu-nbd.c (100%)\n rename tools/{i386 => }/qemu-vmsr-helper.c (100%)\n rename tools/{i386 => }/rapl-msr-index.h (100%)" }