From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dICJO-0005hA-56 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2017 07:06:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dICJL-0002wl-Fe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2017 07:06:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dICJL-0002wW-9q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2017 07:06:07 -0400 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:05:55 +0100 Message-Id: <20170606110556.12922-2-berrange@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170606110556.12922-1-berrange@redhat.com> References: <20170606110556.12922-1-berrange@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: document deprecated features in appendix List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Peter Maydell , Stefan Hajnoczi , "Daniel P. Berrange" The deprecation of features in QEMU is totally adhoc currently, with no way for the user to get a list of what is deprecated in each release. This adds an appendix to the doc that records when each deprecation[1] was made and provides text explaining what to use instead. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange [1] This is a lie. I've only listed one deprecated feature. Once we agree on the general concept, we can fill out the doc with the rest of the currently deprecated features. --- qemu-doc.texi | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 965ba59..29f89d8 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ * QEMU Guest Agent:: * QEMU User space emulator:: * Implementation notes:: +* Deprecations:: * License:: * Index:: @end menu @@ -3016,6 +3017,19 @@ Run the emulation in single step mode. @include qemu-tech.texi +@node Deprecations +@appendix Deprecations + +The following is a list of features which have been marked as deprecated, +pending removal in a future release: + +@section -drive boot=on|off (since v1.3.0) +Since release 1.3.0, the ``boot=on|off'' parameter to ``-drive'' +is no longer honoured. It is currently ignored, but a future verson +will reject this parameter with an error. Applications should use +the ``bootindex=N'' parameter to set an absolute ordering between +devices instead. + @node License @appendix License -- 2.9.3