Re: [PATCH v20210111 07/39] xl: optionally print timestamps during xl migrate

[Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olaf Hering writes ("[PATCH v20210111 07/39] xl: optionally print timestamps 
during xl migrate"):
> During 'xl -v.. migrate domU host' a large amount of debug is generated.
> It is difficult to map each line to the sending and receiving side.
> Also the time spent for migration is not reported.
> 
> With 'xl migrate -T domU host' both sides will print timestamps and
> also the pid of the invoked xl process to make it more obvious which
> side produced a given log line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>

This is from October and ought to have been reviewed much sooner.
Sorry.

With my maintainer hat on: this is a useful development but I am not
sure about the choice of -T, and the choice to make this a
migrate-specific option.  Most unix things that have an option to
print timestamps use `-t`.  But we have already stolen `-t` as a
global option for "prinht CR as well as LF".  Hrmf.

Under the circumstances -T for migrate seems a plausible and
conservative choice.  I think maybe we should maybe add a global -T
later.

Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Now I have to decide what to do about it for 4.15.

The downside risks I see from reading the patch are:

* The CLI API choice is being made in a hurry.

* We might break something.  This actually seems quite unlikely since
  I have reviewed the code changes in detail.


I wonder if I can get a quick second option from someone on the API
question.  Using up a single letter option is something I don't want
to just rush into.

Ian.