Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] target/arm/cpu: Add the kvm-no-adjvtime CPU property

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 16:53, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 03:06:57PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > This phrasing reads a bit confusingly to me. What I would usually expect
> > is that you get
> >   name-of-option              Description of what the option does.
> >
> > But here we have
> >   name-of-option              Long description of the default behaviour,
> >                               taking many lines and several sentences.
> >                               Brief note at the end that enabling this
> >                               feature gives the opposite effect.
> >
> > Especially since the default-behaviour description isn't prefaced
> > with "By default" or similar, it's quite easy to start reading the
> > text assuming it's defining what the option is going to do, only
> > to get to the end and realise that it's defining what the option
> > is *not* going to do...
>
> I'll take another stab at this, but my feeling is that a '-no-' option
> should be one that just turns off the default behavior, which is why I
> wrote a long description of the default behavior. If you'd prefer the
> description to be more terse, then I can certainly delete a bunch of
> the text, but then I fear what this option disables wouldn't be clear
> enough.

I'm happy with the length of it; it would definitely be helped a lot
just with phrasing that was clearer up front about that it was starting
by describing the default behaviour.

thanks
-- PMM