From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5pJi-0007yP-TM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 04:07:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5pJd-0003tn-9A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 04:07:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5pJd-0003sh-2q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2017 04:07:17 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1493719600-30853-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <52fc3efd-55a7-af2d-ce8c-9b4565dfe6dc@de.ibm.com> <87pofrfgl3.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <93de273c-9a3b-dcb8-dd6e-8b9b4fb09a65@redhat.com> <176d87e9-d899-792f-536e-07cd6f5c7cb6@redhat.com> <12a970d6-591b-5684-8ae0-e043071ced9b@redhat.com> <64215e6a-ce86-073c-ae8c-08f3bf7d5615@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 10:07:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <64215e6a-ce86-073c-ae8c-08f3bf7d5615@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Tue, 2 May 2017 18:22:50 +0200") Message-ID: <87r3065pou.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate '-enable-kvm' and '-enable-hax' in favour of '-accel' List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Thomas Huth , Christian Borntraeger , Vincent Palatin , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Paolo Bonzini writes: > On 02/05/2017 18:19, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> I don't like writing it so often, especially to someone who is a >>> relatively experienced contributor, but the common word in all these >>> reviews is "pointless". What is the *purpose* of this work? >> >> Marking the -enable-xxx options in the documentation as deprecated would >> maybe at least prevent that we end up with more >> -enable-mynewcoolaccelerator options in the future, like we did with >> -enable-hax now. > > That assumes -enable-hax was a mistake. :) It was, or else -accel was a mistake. >> But ok, I got the message, and I'll shut up here now. Sorry for wasting >> your time. > > That absolutely wasn't the intent, sorry. The intent is to make your > efforts more useful. Seconded. I hope your patches and our discussion lead us towards a saner, more consistent documented public interface.