Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: Clarify scope of reboot= and noreboot Xen command line options

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/22/16 8:00 PM >>>
>Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH] docs: Clarify scope of reboot= and noreboot 
>Xen command line options"):
>> On 22.12.16 at 16:02, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > -Specify the host reboot method.
>> > +Specify the host reboot method,
>> > +used when Xen crashes.
>> > +(This does not affect deliberate reboots initiated by dom0.)
>> 
>> This should be moved down to where `no` is being described, as
>> it affects only that sub-option. The reboot methods, otoh, affect
>> all kinds of reboots.
>
>So you might say
>reboot=triple reboot=efi reboot=no
>and this would mean to do requested reboots with efi and crash reboots
>not at all, with `reboot=triple' being completely ignored ?

Yes.

>This is ... a funny way for an option with a `=' to behave.
>Perhaps we should deprecate this.

I don't think we should. This override behavior has a use - when something is 
preset
in a config file, and you want to override it on the command line (which can be 
easily
the case namely under EFI). And this behavior is the same for most if not all 
other
command line options.

Jan


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel