Re: [PATCH 0/7 v3] tools/hotplug: systemd changes for 4.5

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	wei.liu2@citrix.com, mcgrof@do-not-panic.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	m.a.young@durham.ac.uk, anthony.perard@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7 v3] tools/hotplug: systemd changes for 4.5
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:05:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420538742.28863.98.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150105212206.GA3869@l.oracle.com>

On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 16:22 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> However there is a question in there for Ian:
> 
> "The place of the wrapper is currently LIBEXEC_BIN, it has to be
> decided what the final location is supposed to be. IanJ wants it in
> "/etc".
> "
> 
> IanJ - any specific reasons for having it in /etc instead of
> LIBEXEC_BIN? 

IIRC Ian explained this is the course of the thread. It's because an
administrator might reasonably want to edit the file to apply local
configuration. It is in effect a configuration file masquerading as a
script.

> > The workaround is to document what the 'context' is .. or whatever
> > else is needed to make this work.
> 
> Such as this might be good (Or perhaps move it to the INSTALL file)

I think the Release Notes are the right place for this sort of
information. e.g.
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.4_Release_Notes#Known_issues

Ian.