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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@alibaba-inc.com>,
	Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cmdline_parse: Also pass bool_assert to OPT_CUSTOM so that parse_bool can be used correctly.
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:08:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D6757E.3050708@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406563175-23761-2-git-send-email-dslutz@verizon.com>


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On 28/07/14 16:59, Don Slutz wrote:
> Based on:
>
> commit 2fcb51bc7a4fcb7534265d7bb155c6ddf03952b8
> Author: kfraser@localhost.localdomain <kfraser@localhost.localdomain>
> Date:   Mon Jul 9 14:29:53 2007 +0100
>
>     Also allow boolean cmdline params to be inverted in two other ways.
>
>     Now, a standard boolean (e.g., watchdog) can be inverted in three
>     ways:
>      1. no-watchdog
>      2. watchdog=no
>      3. watchdog=off
>
>     Stacked inversions cancel each other: no-watchdog=no turns on the
>     watchdog.
>
> bool_assert is needed to do stacked inversions with parse_bool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>

Why do we need to care about stacked inversions?

>From xen-command-line.markdown:

"Explicitly specifying any value other than those listed above is
undefined, as is stacking a |no-| prefix with an explicit value."

~Andrew

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28 15:59 [PATCH 0/3] parse_bool fixes Don Slutz
2014-07-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] cmdline_parse: Also pass bool_assert to OPT_CUSTOM so that parse_bool can be used correctly Don Slutz
2014-07-28 16:06   ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-28 17:12     ` Don Slutz
2014-07-28 19:19       ` Keir Fraser
2014-07-28 20:30         ` Don Slutz
2014-07-29  6:35           ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-29 20:05             ` Don Slutz
2014-07-28 16:08   ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-07-28 16:18     ` Don Slutz
2014-07-28 16:23       ` Andrew Cooper
2014-07-28 19:07         ` Don Slutz
2014-07-28 16:39       ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen/console: Better handing of console_timestamps as a boolean_param Don Slutz
2014-07-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] Adjust parse_vpmu_param use of parse_bool Don Slutz

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