Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/7] Move qtests to a separate folder

From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "Laurent Vivier" <lvivier@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-block@nongnu.org" <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/7] Move qtests to a separate folder
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:58:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190911065857.GB4907@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ce671ea-452b-39ac-ea2e-83b9d75a3b84@redhat.com>

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Am 10.09.2019 um 21:07 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 9/10/19 1:58 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > Our "tests" directory is very overcrowded - we store the qtests,
> > unit test and other files there. That makes it difficult to
> > determine which file belongs to each test subsystem, and the
> > wildcards in the MAINTAINERS file are inaccurate, too.
> > 
> > Let's clean up this mess. The first patches disentangle some
> > dependencies, and the last three patches then move the qtests
> > and libqos (which is a subsystem of the qtests) to a new folder
> > called "tests/qtest/".
> 
> I'd also welcome a rename of tests/qemu-iotests to tests/iotests.

I might prefer if the directory were named "iotests" rather than
"qemu-iotests" if we were only adding the code now.

However, I'm not so sure if I'd like a rename now because a rename
always comes with a cost and the benefits are rather limited in this
case.

Kevin

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