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Message-ID: <877hxdtkwd.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:08:02 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: moving "tools" into the tools/ directory?
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> writes:
>
>> is there a standard for moving command-line tools into the top-level
>> tools/ directory? as in, Documentation/fs/slabinfo.c? stuff like
>> that?
>
> I did some moving of such files from Documentation to tool in a git
> tree some time ago, but to make it actually all build sanely --
> especially with separate objdirs and/or cross compilation -- would
> require major Makefile surgery first.
As a followup the original rename git tree (with still some problems)
is at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6.git tools-rename
In case anyone wants to play with it.
-Andi
The following changes since commit 28d0325ce6e0a52f53d8af687e6427fee59004d3:
Linus Torvalds (1):
Linux 2.6.31-rc1
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6.git tools-rename
Andi Kleen (14):
Add top level Kbuild makefile in tools/
Move Documentation/connector source files to tools/connector
Move Documentation/watchdog/src to tools/watchdog
Move Documentation/lguest source files to tools
Move source files from Documentation/accounting to tools/accounting
Mov source files from Documentation/vm to tools/vm
Move source files from Documentation/networking to tools/networking
Move source files in Documentation/ia64 to tools/ia64
Move Documentation/prctl to tools/prctl
Move source files from Documentation/auxdisplay to tools/auxdisplay
Move source files from Documentation/video4linux to tools/video4linux
Move source files in Documentation/pcmcia into tools/pcmcia
Move source files from Documentation/spi to tools/spi
lguest fix, incomplete
Documentation/Makefile | 4 +---
Documentation/lguest/Makefile | 7 -------
tools/Makefile | 4 ++++
{Documentation => tools}/accounting/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/accounting/Makefile | 2 +-
{Documentation => tools}/accounting/getdelays.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/auxdisplay/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/auxdisplay/Makefile | 0
.../auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/connector/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/connector/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/connector/cn_test.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/connector/ucon.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/ia64/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/ia64/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/ia64/aliasing-test.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/lguest/.gitignore | 0
.../video4linux => tools/lguest}/Makefile | 8 +++++---
{Documentation => tools}/lguest/extract | 0
{Documentation => tools}/lguest/lguest.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/networking/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/networking/ifenslave.c | 0
.../networking/timestamping/.gitignore | 0
.../networking/timestamping/Makefile | 0
.../networking/timestamping/timestamping.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/pcmcia/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/pcmcia/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/pcmcia/crc32hash.c | 0
.../prctl/disable-tsc-ctxt-sw-stress-test.c | 0
.../prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/spi/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/spi/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/spi/spidev_fdx.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/spi/spidev_test.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/video4linux/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/video4linux/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/video4linux/v4lgrab.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/vm/.gitignore | 0
{Documentation => tools}/vm/Makefile | 0
{Documentation => tools}/vm/page-types.c | 0
{Documentation => tools}/vm/slabinfo.c | 0
.../watchdog/src => tools/watchdog}/.gitignore | 0
.../watchdog/src => tools/watchdog}/Makefile | 0
.../src => tools/watchdog}/watchdog-simple.c | 0
.../src => tools/watchdog}/watchdog-test.c | 0
46 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 Documentation/lguest/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/Makefile
rename {Documentation => tools}/accounting/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/accounting/Makefile (80%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/accounting/getdelays.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/auxdisplay/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/auxdisplay/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/auxdisplay/cfag12864b-example.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/connector/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/connector/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/connector/cn_test.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/connector/ucon.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/ia64/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/ia64/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/ia64/aliasing-test.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/lguest/.gitignore (100%)
copy {Documentation/video4linux => tools/lguest}/Makefile (50%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/lguest/extract (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/lguest/lguest.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/networking/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/networking/ifenslave.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/networking/timestamping/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/networking/timestamping/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/pcmcia/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/pcmcia/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/pcmcia/crc32hash.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/prctl/disable-tsc-ctxt-sw-stress-test.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/prctl/disable-tsc-on-off-stress-test.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/prctl/disable-tsc-test.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/spi/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/spi/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/spi/spidev_fdx.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/spi/spidev_test.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/video4linux/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/video4linux/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/video4linux/v4lgrab.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/vm/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/vm/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/vm/page-types.c (100%)
rename {Documentation => tools}/vm/slabinfo.c (100%)
rename {Documentation/watchdog/src => tools/watchdog}/.gitignore (100%)
rename {Documentation/watchdog/src => tools/watchdog}/Makefile (100%)
rename {Documentation/watchdog/src => tools/watchdog}/watchdog-simple.c (100%)
rename {Documentation/watchdog/src => tools/watchdog}/watchdog-test.c (100%)
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