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To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
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On 10/07/09 15:53, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) Oct 07 2009 [15:06:08], Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> There should be some way of deprecating commands in qemu. Maybe in 1-2
> release cycles.

Yes, we should think about that, especially as the qdev switch brings 
alot of changes here.

> Oh; I was stuck at the earlier suggestion made by you:
>
> -device virtio-serial-pci,chardev=...
>
> which implies -device virtioconsole (with a port at id 0)
>
> and then someone also doing
>
> -virtioconsole ...
>
> which would end up creating another bus for this current backward compat
> reason.

Yes, mixing old and new style is good for surprises.
Better avoid that ;)

cheers,
   Gerd