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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:12:30 +0200
From:      Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: 68bff4a07e3f - main - Allow GEOM utilities to specify a -v option.
Message-ID:  <5C3D57AA-5771-42FF-924B-3A09818F869D@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202110290552.19T5qOjx061844@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202110290552.19T5qOjx061844@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On 29 Oct 2021, at 7:52, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by mckusick:
>
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3D68bff4a07e3fa6c30a0c0ff6=
cf5f0bef95dcbd72
>
> commit 68bff4a07e3fa6c30a0c0ff6cf5f0bef95dcbd72
> Author:     Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2021-10-29 05:49:48 +0000
> Commit:     Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2021-10-29 05:50:50 +0000
>
>     Allow GEOM utilities to specify a -v option.
>
>     Geom utilities (geli(8), glabel(8), gmirror(8), gpart(8), gmirror(8=
),
>     gmountver(8), etc) all use the geom(8) utility as their back end
>     to process their commands and pass them into the kernel. Creating
>     a new utility requires no more than filling out a template describi=
ng
>     the commands and arguments that the utility supports. Consider the
>     specification for the very simple gmountver(8) utility:
>
>     struct g_command class_commands[] =3D {
>             { "create", G_FLAG_VERBOSE | G_FLAG_LOADKLD, NULL,
>                 {
>                     G_OPT_SENTINEL
>                 },
>                 "[-v] prov ..."
>             },
>             { "destroy", G_FLAG_VERBOSE, NULL,
>                 {
>                     { 'f', "force", NULL, G_TYPE_BOOL },
>                     G_OPT_SENTINEL
>                 },
>                 "[-fv] name"
>             },
>             G_CMD_SENTINEL
>     };
>
>     It has just two commands of its own: "create" and "destroy" along
>     with the four standard commands "list", "status", "load", and
>     "unload" provided by the base geom(8) utility. The base geom(8)
>     utility allows each command to use the G_FLAG_VERBOSE flag to speci=
fy
>     that a command should accept the -v flag and when the -v flag is
>     given the utility prints "Done." if the command completes successfu=
lly.
>     In the above example, both of the commands set the G_FLAG_VERBOSE,
>     so have the -v option available. In addition the "destroy" command
>     accepts the -f boolean flag to force the destruction.
>
>     If the "destroy" command wanted to also print out verbose informati=
on,
>     it would need to explicitly declare its intent by adding a line:
>
>                     { 'v', "verbose", NULL, G_TYPE_BOOL },
>
>     Before this change, the geom utility would silently ignore the abov=
e
>     line in the configuration file, so it was impossible for the utilit=
y
>     to know that the -v flag had been set on the command. With this
>     change a geom command can explicitly specify a -v option with a
>     line as given above and handle it as it would any other option. If
>     both a -v option and G_FLAG_VERBOSE are specified for a command
>     then both types of verbose information will be output when that
>     command is run with -v.
>
>     MFC after:    1 week
>     Sponsored by: Netflix
> ---
>  sbin/geom/core/geom.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>  sbin/geom/core/geom.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sbin/geom/core/geom.c b/sbin/geom/core/geom.c
> index 58b33a067700..2e0d8683df49 100644
> --- a/sbin/geom/core/geom.c
> +++ b/sbin/geom/core/geom.c

> @@ -440,7 +445,7 @@ set_flags(struct g_command *cmd)
>  {
>  	unsigned flags =3D 0;
>
> -	if ((cmd->gc_flags & G_FLAG_VERBOSE) !=3D 0 && verbose)
> +	if ((cmd->gc_flags & G_FLAG_VERBOSE) !=3D 0)
>  		flags |=3D G_FLAG_VERBOSE;
>
>  	return (flags);

Given https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32736 I wonder if the removal of the v=
erbose check here was correct.

If I'm reading this code right we now always set the verbose flag for any=
 subcommand that supports it (i.e. has G_FLAG_VERBOSE set).

That leads to commands such as glabel always acting as if '-v' was specif=
ied.

The set_flags() output is only used if g_func is set, which isn't the cas=
e in any of the examples in the commit message, so I wonder if that case =
was overlooked.

Best regards,
Kristof



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