Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] move 'unsafe' to end of caching modes in help

[Markus Armbruster]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:

> On 07/26/2010 02:19 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> Is what we are supporting just what libvirt expects there to be or
>>> what any tool out there expects there to be?
>>
>> We should try to support all users, prioritized by the number of end
>> users they represent.  If this patch broke some other large user
>> we'd be in a bind.  But likely this isn't the case so we aren't.
>
> As I've said, I'm pragmatic and that's why I've argued for these
> changes in the past.  But libvirt should have changed a long time ago
> to using something more reliable (like version).

You want pragmatic?  I can give you pragmatic!  We apply the trivial
patch that helps libvirt and hurts nobody, and save our breath & typing
for designing and implementing a capability system.

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