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MCA parameters that cannot be understood should cause warnings/errors

Open abouteiller opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Description

Some time ago we changed --mca runtime_bind_thread to --mca bind_thread. Passing in the obsolete value is silently ignored, which is really error prone for end users.

Learning from that story, we should not silently ignore incorrect arguments.

Describe the solution you'd like

We should warn when invalid mca parameters are passed-in.

Describe alternatives you've considered

We could also error out when invalid mca parameters are passed-in, but that may cause errors to be generated when the mca param file contains options that are relevant for another in-work branch.

abouteiller avatar Jan 31 '24 18:01 abouteiller