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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Don't attach needless options when launch pygrub

To: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Don't attach needless options when launch pygrub
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:47:32 +0100
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On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:15 +0100, Yu Zhiguo wrote:
> We should always run grub if bootloader is specified,
> options 'kernel' and 'ramdisk' are needless.

Not quite. If you specify both bootloader and kernel then this instructs
pygrub to extract the specific named file from the guest file system,
similarly for the ramdisk.

With your patch the functionality is still available using the
bootloader_args field to add the "--kernel=FOO" yourself but I'm not
sure it is a big enough issue to be worth changing. Is there some
specific reason you don't like the current behaviour?

In any case you seem to have forgotten to update the caller in
tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py.

I also have patches pending on the list from Monday which add bootloader
functionality, including this behaviour, to libxl so if we decide to
change it here it will need to change there as well.

Ian.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r d867eb643fe4 -r 38d9dac1de56 tools/python/xen/xend/XendBootloader.py
> --- a/tools/python/xen/xend/XendBootloader.py Tue Jul 13 18:17:28 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/XendBootloader.py Wed Jul 14 22:18:58 2010 +0800
> @@ -24,8 +24,7 @@
>  import pty, termios, fcntl
>  from xen.lowlevel import ptsname
>  
> -def bootloader(blexec, disk, dom, quiet = False, blargs = '', kernel = '',
> -               ramdisk = '', kernel_args = ''):
> +def bootloader(blexec, disk, dom, quiet = False, blargs = '', kernel_args = 
> ''):
>      """Run the boot loader executable on the given disk and return a
>      config image.
>      @param blexec  Binary to use as the boot loader
> @@ -96,10 +95,6 @@
>      (child, m2) = pty.fork()
>      if (not child):
>          args = [ blexec ]
> -        if kernel:
> -            args.append("--kernel=%s" % kernel)
> -        if ramdisk:
> -            args.append("--ramdisk=%s" % ramdisk)
>          if kernel_args:
>              args.append("--args=%s" % kernel_args)
>          if quiet:
> 
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