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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] char: Add qemu_chr_write_nb() for
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

>> I'm all for killing the blocking interface. Problem is that converting
>> over all users isn't exactly trivial and we have plenty of them. IMHO
>> it isn't realistic to do the switch with a single patch series.
>
> If we're agreed we ought to kill the blocking interface, let's define a
> new proper interface, rename all previous users to something ugly and
> deprecated, and approach it that way.

__attribute__ ((deprecated)) ?

cheers,
   Gerd