Re: [PATCH 2/2] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 06/11/20 17:49, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> Deprecate all this, except for -chardev and -spice where it is in
>>> wide use.
>> I consider this a misuse of deprecation, to be frank.  If something is
>> known to be unused, we just remove it.  Deprecation is precisely for
>> things that are used.  I'm with Daniel here: let's deprecate this sugar
>> everywhere.
>> Wide use may justify extending the deprecation grace period.
>
> Fair enough.  However now that I think of it I'd have to remove the
> coverage of the "feature" in tests, because they'd warn.

Either that, or do what we do elsewhere when warnings get in the way of
testing: suppress them when testing.  I wouldn't bother here unless it's
easy.