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From: Charles Duffy <Charles_Duffy@messageone.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:39:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gibh06$cm7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10C63FAD690C13458F0B32BCED571F1403A96C9C@pdsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Zhang, Yang wrote:
> Hi
> Please drop former. 
> This is the modify patch for save nvram.
> I add the new command line arg of "-nvram file" to specify the location 
> Of the file. Without the arg ,it will save the nvram in the current dir 
> and named as "nvram.dat". Also, it will read the saved file "nvram.dat" 
> from current dir without the arg.

Speaking with my end-user hat on, this seems to violate the principal of 
least surprise:

I would expect NVRAM contents to be discarded, not saved to a file in 
the current working directory, if no relevant option were given on the 
command line.

Likewise, I would expect NVRAM contents to be initialized exactly as 
they are right now (even if that means no initialization at all) if no 
path were given.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02  2:25 [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02  5:27 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02 10:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-02 13:01   ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-02 13:10     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-03  6:02       ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-03  6:12         ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-16  9:21           ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-17 18:39             ` Charles Duffy [this message]
2008-12-18  5:30               ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-18 18:00                 ` Charles Duffy
2008-12-19  1:56                   ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24  5:27                     ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24  5:34                       ` Zhang, Yang

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