[flashrom] [PATCH] LibFlashrom: File Structure

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 12.12.2009 01:46, Sean Nelson wrote:
> This patch moves the current files into folders, library related in
> libflashrom/,

That's a long path. What about lib/ and should we separate programmer
and chip stuff as well? Maybe lib/programmer/ and lib/chip/ or somesuch?


> CLI related in cli/, QT4 gui in qt4/. The Qt4.5 gui hasn't been
> integrated into the tree yet. Please review at your leisure. Yes, this
> is a very large patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Nelson <audiohacked at gmail.com>

This patch is >1 MB and pretty difficult to review. Can you regenerate
the patch without the file moves or at least with each moves summarized
as "move foo.c to bar/foo.c"? The categorization of files is highly
non-trivial and I'd like us to get it right.

I think someone posted a "move to subdirectories" patch in the past and
was shot down (too small benefit for a huge pain of dealing with
multiple subdirectories).

My current plan is to keep everything in one directory for now and split
the files according to function. The biggest offender in the "undefined
mishmash of functionality" category is flashrom.c which should be split
into CLI interface (maybe in cli.c), library stuff and "action"
infrastructure. Well, right now I'd be happy if the CLI stuff would be
moved out to a separate file in the same directory. That alone should
give us a feeling for what we need to kill.

Any file moves (to subdirectories) will invalidate all pending patches,
so I'd like to merge everything else before doing the move post 0.9.2
(if we can get consensus on the directories). File splits are localized
enough to be mergeable, though.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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