Re: [PATCH 4/4] qapi/char: Deprecate backend type "memory"

["Ján Tomko" <jtomko@redhat.com>]

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On a Saturday in 2024, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>It's an alias for "ringbuf" we kept for backward compatibility; see
>commit 3a1da42eb35 (qapi: Rename ChardevBackend member "memory" to
>"ringbuf").  Deprecation is long overdue.
>
>Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>---
> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
> qapi/char.json            | 8 +++++---
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
>index d4492b9460..ae1a520c26 100644
>--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
>+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
>@@ -371,6 +371,14 @@ Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on the command line using the
> used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that provides
> a password via a file, or encrypted.
>
>+Character device options
>+''''''''''''''''''''''''
>+
>+Backend ``memory`` (since 9.0)
>+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>+
>+``memory`` is a deprecated synonym for ``ringbuf``.
>+

For libvirt:
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>

(We don't support either of those)

Jano

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