Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] s390/ipl: fix ipl with -no-reboot

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 22.06.2018 12:10, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/22/2018 11:59 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 22/06/2018 11:46, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>>>> Ok, then my suggestion made even more sense. :)  No other objections
>>>>> apart from the name of the constant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paolo  
>>>> SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_S390_PARTIAL ?
>>> Don't like that one much.
>>>
>>>> SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_S390_SUBSYS_RESET?
>>> Either that, or drop the 'S390' (is it conceivable that other
>>> architectures have something similar)?
>>>
>>
>> I don't know exactly what is going on here, so I'm not very suited to
>> answer this.  The difference just from reading the C code seems to be
>> that it calls s390_cpu_load_normal instead of s390_ipl_prepare_cpu, and
>> that it calls subsystem_reset instead of qemu_devices_reset.
>>
>> For a more generic name I'd go with SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_OS_BOOT (or
>> OS_BOOTING, or BOOT_OS), but an s390-specific name is of course fine as
>> well, especially if you have a specific moniker for the "thing that IPL
> 
> It is not a BOOT, it is in fact an reset just to the devices.
> Right now I favor
> 
> SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_SUBSYSTEM_RESET
> 

+1

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb