linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around Qemu to test kernels

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Date:	Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:47:15 -0700
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org list" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Add wrapper script around Qemu to test kernels


On 24.08.2011, at 20:44, Américo Wang wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de> wrote:
>> 
>> On 24.08.2011, at 00:31, Américo Wang wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It's nice to see such an honest attempt at improving QEMU usability, Alexander!
>>>> 
>>>> One comment: in my experience, having shell scripts under
>>>> Documentation reduces the likelihood that people actually discover
>>>> them so you might want to consider putting it under scripts or tools.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was going to give the same suggestion, +1 for tools/ directory.
>> 
>> Well, scripts/ is a flat directory where I can just throw in the script. Tools however is split by tool and creating a full new directory for only a single script sounds a bit like overkill to me. I'll move it to scripts/ for now :)
> 
> How about the directory tools/testing/ ?
> 
> scripts/ is mainly for the tools/utilities we use to build kernel or
> do kernel dev,
> it is not so suitable for your script IMHO.

Good idea! I talked to Steven about it as well and completely forgot your email pointing me to the same directory. I guess that one does fit it pretty well.


Alex

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