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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] libxc/restore: Bail if unknown
 options are found
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:43:46 +0100
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On 08/05/15 22:14, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> When restoring a domain, check for unknown options in Image Header.  Nothing
> good will come from attempting to continue.

Section 2.3 (Fields) explicitly states that "Padding and reserved fields
are set to zero on save and must be ignored during restore".

I don't think there is a compelling reason to change this behaviour for
this particular field.

David