From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] expert_mode: Add a new configuration option for expert users. Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:21:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20130716152115.GA8326@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1373652532-24166-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <1373652532-24166-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <1373965455.4663.10.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1373965455.4663.10.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:04:15AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:08 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > This could also be called 'seatbelt' option. > > > > libxl has a variety of checks where it will fail out an operation > > unless the user has provided an --force (or --ignore) parameter. > > Currently one such check is for the 'vcpu-set' command which > > will error out if the count of virtual cpus is greater than the > > physical cpus. This parameter will ignore such checks and allow > > the user to do the operations without the need for override flags. > > Does this overlap somewhat with various commands which individually > take a -f(orce) option? Not exactly. This particular issue was more of the variety of - we add some checks that earlier version of toolstacks did not have. And as such we fail to do the operation _unless_ a force is given. But all of this kind of falls under a seatbelt function - if the user knows what he or she is doing could be bad, well - if they know what they are doing then they can go ahead.