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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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