Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv6 0/7] Implement pmd hardware support exports

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:34:56AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> You are creating a new directory buildtools/ which depends on mk/
I don't know what this means.  Every part of the dpdk that builds code depends
on the infrastructure in mk/ (save for the scripts below)

> We also have some scripts used in the build process:
> 	scripts/auto-config-h.sh
> 	scripts/depdirs-rule.sh
> 	scripts/gen-build-mk.sh
> 	scripts/gen-config-h.sh
> 	scripts/relpath.sh
> I think we should move these scripts somewhere else, probably in mk.
> So we would have only 2 directories for the build system and we would
> keep the scripts directory only for dev tools.
> 
> If we want to make a step further, we can rename scripts/ to devtools/
> and tools/ to usertools/.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
I suppose if you like, sure, though I would caution against moving them to mk/
as no one really expects executable scripts in the infrastructure makefile area.
If you want to move the buildtool scripts elsewhere I would suggest
buildtools/scripts.

Either way though, this movement seems to fall outside of the purview of the
purpose of the changeset associated with this email thread.

Neil