Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw-posix: Deprecate host floppy passthrough

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 2015-03-17 at 12:02, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Raise your hand if you have a physical floppy drive in a computer
> you've powered on in 2015.  Okay, I see we got a few weirdos in the
> audience.  That's okay, weirdos are welcome here.

I do have a USB floppy drive. If I stuff that into my case, does it count?

> Kidding aside, media change detection doesn't fully work, isn't going
> to be fixed, and floppy passthrough just isn't earning its keep
> anymore.
>
> Deprecate block driver host_floppy now, so we can drop it after a
> grace period.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---
>   block/raw-posix.c    | 2 ++
>   qapi/block-core.json | 2 ++
>   qemu-doc.texi        | 5 +++--
>   qemu-options.hx      | 3 +--
>   qmp-commands.hx      | 2 +-
>   5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>