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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 2/3] virtio-blk: fail get_features when
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To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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On 23/07/2015 11:07, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > Paolo said this specific feature has been deprecated for years, no
> > one should be using it, so we dropped it from spec.
>
> Nothing wrong with that. But "it's deprecated" does not mean "nobody's
> using it", I fear. The question is: Should qemu accommodate those users?

"It's deprecated" does mean (or at least can mean) "it's going to go
away in relatively exceptional circumstances".  virtio 1 counts as
relatively exceptional, I think.

Paolo