Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/6] Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip

Andreas Färber
2012-10-04T16:13:52Z

Am 04.10.2012 18:04, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
> On 2012-10-04 17:36, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 04.10.2012 16:30, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>>> On 2012-10-04 16:21, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> - avoid adding them to the help or other user documentation
>>
>> That's dangerous - at some point someone will notice and propose a patch
>> documenting them and the reviewers may have forgotten by then why it was
>> not documented in the first place. Better clearly document them in help
>> output as "DEPRECATED, to be removed in future versions" or so.
>
> -M is marked as deprecated in the file that you would have to mess up.

If it's not within +/- 3 lines and goes through qemu-trivial then that
point is moot. Don't see how deprecation of -no-kvm-irqchip et al. is
related to -M being deprecated either way.

Andreas

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