On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:38:20PM +0300, Constantinos Venetsanopoulos wrote:
> The option is added to allow us the passing of arbitrary ext-params
> during disk addition (gnt-instance modify --disk add: ...), same as
> we do during instance add.
> 
> The option is needed because during gnt-instance modify parameters'
> validation, we do not know the type of the disk template
> (whereas in gnt-instance add we find it from the -t option).
> 
> The option is called 'arbit' and not 'ext' params because it may be
> useful in other contexts too, in the future.
> 
> The corresponding prereq checks for the existence of the 'provider'
> parameter in case of an 'ext' template are also taken care off in
> this commit. It serves as a general introduction of the 'ext'
> template in gnt-instance modify.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Constantinos Venetsanopoulos <[email protected]>
> 
> Conflicts:
> 
>       lib/cmdlib.py

Conflicts? :)

This is not a review of the patch, but just reading the commit message,
I find "--allow-arbit-params" too hard to read. What about
"--flexible-params"? 

thanks,
iustin

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