Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH for-1.4 v4 01/12] ppc: Move Mac machines to hw/ppc/

[Alexander Graf]

On 25.01.2013, at 14:51, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> On 25.01.2013, at 14:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 
>> On 25 January 2013 13:37, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 25.01.2013, at 14:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>> On 25 January 2013 12:49, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Am 25.01.2013 11:43, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>>>>> You so far refused to have new SoCs/devices put in hw/arm/. Doing so
>>>>> does keep consistency but creates more work moving them later.
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't *refused*. I just haven't seen a consensus about what
>>>> we want the filesystem layout to be, in the absence of which I
>>>> haven't seen any great reason to change from the current setup.
>>>> If we have that consensus then fine, we can move things around.
>>> 
>>> I don't care which way we go (everything in hw/ or split into
>>> subdirs), but the current state where some logically depending
>>> pieces are in hw/ and others are in hw/foo just plain sucks.
>>> 
>>> Since you don't have that problem, you can just ignore this patch
>>> for arm. It's really a cleanup for me so that I stay sane :).
>> 
>> Well, I do care, because we should be aiming for some consistency
>> across architectures, whether we do that by moving more files
>> into hw/$arch/ or by moving the handful of files and random
>> Makefile.objs out of hw/$arch/...
> 
> Sure, how do we reach that consensus? Call in the quorum of the 13 tribes? :)

Or in other words: Today every maintainer decides himself. This is why we have 
hw/pci, hw/dataplane, etc. IMHO architectures are no different than other 
subtrees.


Alex