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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>,
	Petitboot@lists.ozlabs.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: Add --lite option
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 00:20:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446704423.12676.91.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445474248.30908.115.camel@infradead.org>

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 17:37 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:02 +0800, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> > Add a new option --lite to kexec that allows for a fast reboot
> > > by avoiding the purgatory integrity checks.  This option is
> > > intended for use by kexec based bootloaders that load a new
> > > image and then immediately transfer control to it.
> > 
> > Can we call this something other than 'lite'? I'd want to prevent any
> > confusion when referring to 'kexec-lite', which is a separate
> > project.
> 
> Well, that is why I chose the name 'lite', because it mimics what kexec
> -lite does...
> 
> What do others think?

I don't think it's a good name.  Even if the user has any idea what the kexec-
lite project is and that this is a reference to it, you're mimicking a 
specific aspect of kexec-lite behavior, not kexec-lite in general.

If it's an option to skip sha256 verification, then call it something like "--
skip-sha256".

-Scott


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-05  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21 23:12 [PATCH] kexec: Add --lite option Geoff Levand
2015-10-22  0:02 ` Jeremy Kerr
2015-10-22  0:37   ` Geoff Levand
2015-11-05  6:20     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2015-10-22  3:17 ` Dave Young
2015-10-22 12:50   ` Vivek Goyal
2015-10-22 19:08     ` Geoff Levand
2015-11-05  5:56       ` Scott Wood
2015-12-07 11:45         ` Pratyush Anand
2015-12-07 11:48           ` Pratyush Anand
2015-12-07 13:16             ` James Morse
2015-12-07 14:07               ` Pratyush Anand
2015-12-08  1:03                 ` Scott Wood
2015-12-08 16:00                 ` James Morse
2015-12-09  9:28                   ` Pratyush Anand
2016-01-11 12:46                     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-01-12  1:06                       ` Simon Horman
2015-10-22 18:57   ` Geoff Levand
2015-10-22 19:04     ` Vivek Goyal
2015-10-23  9:46     ` Dave Young
2015-10-23 18:49       ` Geoff Levand
2015-10-23 19:02     ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-11 18:30 ` [PATCH v2] kexec: Add --no-checks option Geoff Levand
2018-04-19  8:38   ` Simon Horman

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