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

[Thomas Huth]

On 11/09/2019 08.58, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 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.

Well, if we all agree that it rather should be renamed, we should maybe
rather do it now than later. Later the cost might even be higher.

 Thomas

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