From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuJf-00075P-AG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:26:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuJb-0001CY-CQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:26:03 -0400 Message-ID: <5508558C.6040407@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:25:48 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1426608140-20592-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1426608140-20592-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="D1u3cWEfsoIpRQ44k6JGrgIIff7iPPwIX" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] raw-posix: Deprecate host floppy passthrough List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, mreitz@redhat.com This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --D1u3cWEfsoIpRQ44k6JGrgIIff7iPPwIX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/17/2015 10:02 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Raise your hand if you have a physical floppy drive in a computer > you've powered on in 2015. Okay, I see we got a few weirdos in the > audience. That's okay, weirdos are welcome here. >=20 > Kidding aside, media change detection doesn't fully work, isn't going > to be fixed, and floppy passthrough just isn't earning its keep > anymore. >=20 > Deprecate block driver host_floppy now, so we can drop it after a > grace period. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster > --- > +++ b/qapi/block-core.json > @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ > # 'host_floppy', 'http', 'https', 'nbd', 'parallels', 'qcow', > # 'qcow2', 'raw', 'tftp', 'vdi', 'vmdk', 'vpc', 'vvfat' > # 2.2: 'archipelago' added, 'cow' dropped > +# 2.3: 'host_floppy' deprecated We dropped 'cow' without any deprecation period, but I don't mind giving a few more months reprieve to host_floppy users. At any rate, I won't be sad to see it gone :) Reviewed-by: Eric Blake --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --D1u3cWEfsoIpRQ44k6JGrgIIff7iPPwIX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVCFWMAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nq0C8IAJCiTHKUITEMSqU87OJniQT1 P5ylkXDSUhzxUDMD4fMM58J2zbCCvSfM2kFm1M7waHIb/Zwp8tv7Nx1s0s5sMFSl Sokd4/EiabIdxEbAKBjAXXe6I7Scp+cDv4U6wKS7y+T3IFVte80NY52rStJUN1lE d1jJDN2J1B9MGWq2ieXHl7X/bXAtb5887B8CsDaqm0j/deXVZ0Mk4buELEK1uixS 2sf/SG7s9hXv8cCxBv5sD9PEXDXdCoQW2pJuj8IYaF+ZOhA6j6PiS+58LjVPROgf KtK5JPRlHMXz+e6KSracH7iUfetVRU4/3HDWQ0GQfuk1nZk0GvQGA7qN9fE/VBA= =Azk0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --D1u3cWEfsoIpRQ44k6JGrgIIff7iPPwIX--