From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>,
"'xen-devel@lists.xensource.com'" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:10:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C21F99E.7070807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19489.63562.359937.534740@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 06/23/2010 02:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michal Novotny writes ("Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks"):
>> Are you saying that it's OK for administrators to violate the IDE specs
>> and do it the way that is should never be done since this way it's not
>> working on bare-metal systems ? This is the breach and it shouldn't be
>> done this way so why to allow it? Shouldn't we care the code complies
>> with the specifications to have it done the right way?
>
> The job of the programmer is to give effect to the wishes of the
> users, not to comply with rules from elsewhere. If the wishes of the
> users conflict with rules from elsewhere, including specs, then the
> programmer should do what the user wants.
Telling him that he wanted something that cannot be _emulated_
accurately is also a possibility. But we can agree to disagree here and
Michal can remove this part of the patch.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-23 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-21 16:30 [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks Michal Novotny
2010-06-21 18:04 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-22 5:43 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 6:11 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 6:14 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-22 6:17 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 12:56 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 14:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-06-23 11:27 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 20:46 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-23 9:59 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 11:21 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 13:51 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-23 14:14 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 14:56 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 11:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-23 11:27 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 11:29 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 11:50 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 11:54 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:04 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 12:10 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-06-23 12:20 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:20 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:12 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-23 15:12 ` George Dunlap
2010-06-23 16:26 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-23 12:35 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-23 12:37 ` Michal Novotny
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