From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 16/27] cs-job-create: Permit creation of `synth' runvars Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:16:12 +0100 Message-ID: <1442412972.18856.87.camel@citrix.com> References: <1442410530-9665-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1442410530-9665-17-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcDVQ-0004PD-NZ for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:16:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1442410530-9665-17-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 14:35 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > This will be useful if we want to set hostalloc_* runvars. Normally > we would want to set those only on flights generated by make-flight. > > Flights generated by cs-bisection-step or cs-adjust-flight ought not > to copy them, because cs-bisection-step makes its own arrangements for > host specification, as should the caller of cs-adjust-flight (perhaps > via the blessing system). > > Using `synth' for this is arguably slightly wrong but it does the > right thing in all existing cases. The alternative would be a schema > change. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Campbell ./standalone set-paths could usefully use this too I think.