Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: delete the -e and -6 options from the 'create' command

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 02:16:06PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 04.07.2017 um 12:34 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> > The '-e' and '-6' options to the 'create' command were "deprecated"
> > in favour of the more generic '-o' option many years ago:
> > 
> >   commit eec77d9e712bd4157a4e1c0b5a9249d168add738
> >   Author: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
> >   Date:   Tue Dec 7 17:44:34 2010 +0100
> > 
> >     qemu-img: Deprecate obsolete -6 and -e options
> > 
> > Except this was never actually a deprecation, which would imply giving
> > the user a warning while the functionality continues to work for a
> > number of releases before eventual removal. Instead the options were
> > immediately turned into an error + exit. Given that the functionality
> > is already broken, there's no point in keeping these psuedo-deprecation
> > messages around any longer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks, applied to the block branch.
> 
> Do you want to send another patch to do the same in qemu-img convert?

Opps, I wasn't paying attention & missed the convert command. I'll just
send a v2 of this that covers both.

Regards,
Daniel
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