Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 11/12] xenctx: Dump registers via hvm info if available.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 13:56 -0500, Don Slutz wrote:
> On 11/06/13 15:35, Andrew Cooper wrote:

> > I would certainly not object if someone were to merge these two tools
> > into one.  It is particularly awkward as xen-hvmctx ends up being
> > installed into /usr/sbin/ and is therefore on the $PATH, while xenctx
> > ends up off the $PATH in /usr/lib/xen/bin/
> The way I would do this is to make 1 source file, delete the 2nd, and
> install the same code as both xenctx and xen-hvmctx.  argv[0] can be
> decoded and the default action adjusted based on the name. In this
> case there would be command line options to get the current old output
> for each tool.

Personally I don't think we need to retain any kind of CLI compatibility
for such developer focused tools. I'd be perfectly happy for the
(sensible) functionality of hvmctx to be merged into xenctx and to then
disappear.

Ian.


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