Hi,

> On 1 Mar 2022, at 08:24, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> when commit d96e5e6c1214 added UNSUPPORTED, it left x86'es TBOOT
> default untouched. This means we default-enable an unsupported
> setting, which doesn't look to be what's generally wanted. I can
> see defaulting to DEBUG as reasonable, and SCHED_NULL's defaulting
> to enabled when PV_SHIM can imo also be justified (there it's
> rather that UNSUPPORTED is inapplicable for the shim case, and the
> adjustment was also done subsequent to the named commit).
> 
> Shouldn't we therefore have a rule of thumb that UNSUPPORTED
> entries only ever have no "default" (implying "n") or default to
> no more than DEBUG?

In general that would definitely make sense yes even though there might be
exceptions due to for example a dependency to an other unsupported parameter.

I would definitely agree with this.

Cheers
Bertrand

> 
> Thanks for opinions,
> Jan
> 
> 


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