Re: [PATCH] qapi: Belatedly update CompatPolicy documentation for unstable

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:

> On 9/10/23 13:04, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Commit 57df0dff1a1 (qapi: Extend -compat to set policy for unstable
>> interfaces) neglected to update the "Limitation" paragraph to mention
>
> With retrospective, 'experimental' seems more meaningful. Anyway,
> too  late.

Experiments are a major use for interfaces without stability promise,
but there's also debugging aids and such.

>> feature 'unstable' in addition to feature 'deprecated'.  Do that now.
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   qapi/compat.json | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/qapi/compat.json b/qapi/compat.json
>> index f4c19837eb..42034d9368 100644
>> --- a/qapi/compat.json
>> +++ b/qapi/compat.json
>> @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
>>   # This is intended for testing users of the management interfaces.
>>   #
>>   # Limitation: covers only syntactic aspects of QMP, i.e. stuff tagged
>> -# with feature 'deprecated'.  We may want to extend it to cover
>> -# semantic aspects and CLI.
>> +# with feature 'deprecated' or 'unstable'.  We may want to extend it
>> +# to cover semantic aspects and CLI.
>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

Thanks!