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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] arm: drop intermadiate cpu_model ->
 cpu type parsing and use cpu type directly
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Igor Mitsyanko <i.mitsyanko@gmail.com>, Alistair Francis <alistair@alistair23.me>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:41:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 September 2017 at 21:30, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> > However, I have a suggestion for Igor: making a separate patch
> > that renames the existing property to "x-cpu-model", and using
> > "x-cpu-type" in this series.  This way we will explicitly
> > document the fact that the property is not a stable
> > user/management interface.
> 
> We have lots and lots of properties on non-user-instantiated
> devices that aren't intended as user level configurable
> things...

Well, we need to deal with them somehow, otherwise we have no
simple way to know if removing/renaming a property is really safe
or not.

-- 
Eduardo