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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 4/6] xl: add pvusb commands
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:08:44 +0200
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On 05/21/2015 03:01 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 05/21/2015 12:58 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> There might be existing users who know about "xm usb-assignable-list".
>
> Yes -- unfortunately something has to give: either we confuse new users
> with two names that sound similar but do something different, or we
> confuse former xm users by renaming their function, or we confuse
> current xl users by renaming their function.  There's badness to be had
> whichever one we choose.  I think renaming the xm function is the least
> bad of all the options.
>
>> OTOH I don't care giving it another name, as long as the functionality
>> is available.
>
> OK -- what about "usb-available-list"?  Any objections / alternate
> suggestions from anyone?

Hmm, just another idea:

xl usb-list -a

could list all domains with assigned USB-devices and the currently not
assigned devices as well. This would avoid the need for another command
name. It would even be possible to omit the "-a".


Juergen