From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/6] Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:13:48 +0200 Message-ID: <506DB5BC.3070901@suse.de> References: <20121003105255.972669952@amt.cnet> <20121003105509.391284251@amt.cnet> <87fw5vhb5a.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <20121003150341.GA15164@amt.cnet> <506C5DED.7000705@web.de> <878vbn4gs9.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <506C74E0.8080409@web.de> <20121003182652.GA32381@amt.cnet> <506D56B1.8090804@web.de> <87626qiahv.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <506D9D82.2090202@siemens.com> <506DAD06.1030803@suse.de> <506DB38F.4010704@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Anthony Liguori , Marcelo Tosatti , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , Gerd Hoffmann To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43700 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757077Ab2JDQNw (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:13:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <506DB38F.4010704@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 04.10.2012 18:04, schrieb Jan Kiszka: > On 2012-10-04 17:36, Andreas F=E4rber wrote: >> Am 04.10.2012 16:30, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >>> On 2012-10-04 16:21, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> - avoid adding them to the help or other user documentation >> >> That's dangerous - at some point someone will notice and propose a p= atch >> documenting them and the reviewers may have forgotten by then why it= was >> not documented in the first place. Better clearly document them in h= elp >> output as "DEPRECATED, to be removed in future versions" or so. >=20 > -M is marked as deprecated in the file that you would have to mess up= =2E If it's not within +/- 3 lines and goes through qemu-trivial then that point is moot. Don't see how deprecation of -no-kvm-irqchip et al. is related to -M being deprecated either way. Andreas --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=F6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=FCrn= berg