[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/23/2010 02:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michal Novotny writes ("Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks"):
> > Are you saying that it's OK for administrators to violate the IDE specs
> > and do it the way that is should never be done since this way it's not
> > working on bare-metal systems ? This is the breach and it shouldn't be
> > done this way so why to allow it? Shouldn't we care the code complies
> > with the specifications to have it done the right way?
> The job of the programmer is to give effect to the wishes of the
> users, not to comply with rules from elsewhere.  If the wishes of the
> users conflict with rules from elsewhere, including specs, then the
> programmer should do what the user wants.
Telling him that he wanted something that cannot be _emulated_ 
accurately is also a possibility.  But we can agree to disagree here and 
Michal can remove this part of the patch.
Paolo

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