Re: virtiofsd: Where should it live?

[Eric Blake]

On 12/4/19 7:28 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 04.12.2019 um 09:17 hat Gerd Hoffmann geschrieben:
> >    Hi,
> >
> > > >      |   ...
> > > >      +- qemu-edid
> > >
> > > Has its own MAINTAINERS section, together with hw/display/edit* and
> > > include/hw/display/edid.h.  I'm not sure moving it hw/display/ is a good
> > > idea.  Gerd?
> >
> > Sort-of makes sense.  My personal preference would be a tools/ directory
> > for all those small utilities though.
>
> I think I would like that better than throwing tools into block/ where
> currently mostly just block drivers live.

Ooh, I should have read this sub-thread before writing my reply at the 
top level.  Yes, I like the idea of tools/ for qemu-img, qemu-io, and 
qemu-nbd better than block/.

> Or, if we want to move the tools there, we'd need another directory
> level inside block/ to keep things reasonably organised.

Separating drivers from executables sounds worthwhile either way, 
whether that division is by a new tools/ or by a subdirectory in block/.

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