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

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 ?

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

Ian.

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