From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37989) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5Uvj-0007du-N5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 06:21:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5Uvg-0008Rx-K7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 06:21:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5Uvg-0008Pk-EY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 06:21:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 11:21:05 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170502102105.GH3459@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <1493719600-30853-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1493719600-30853-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate '-enable-kvm' and '-enable-hax' in favour of '-accel' List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , Vincent Palatin On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 12:06:40PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > The '-enable-...' option do not make too much sense: They do not > allow additional parameters, using '-accel xxx' is shorter than > '-enable-xxx' and we're also inconsistent here, since there is > no '-enable-xen' option available. So let's try to convince the > users to use '-accel xxx' instead. What is our general approach to deciding which of our "legacy" parameters are merely syntactic sugar for other parameters, vs stuff we want to deprecate & eventually remove ? Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|