From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdVRm-0003tw-Gh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:51:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdVRl-0000HW-1E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:51:26 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <20180703111949.GB24516@redhat.com> <20180703113229.GD3812@localhost.localdomain> <20180704150256.408d4a07.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180704133440.GE4334@localhost.localdomain> <20180706131103.4e713911.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180706145645.GB3939@localhost.localdomain> <20180709072953.GE7755@andariel.pipo.sk> <87k1q3ljgs.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20180710162208.7b1b5cdc.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180710143807.GJ5852@localhost.localdomain> <871sc9gdr2.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:51:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <871sc9gdr2.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (Markus Armbruster's message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:38:25 +0200") Message-ID: <8736wplzff.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Kevin Wolf , Cornelia Huck , Peter Maydell , Boris Fiuczynski , Qemu-block , Libvirt , QEMU Developers , Christian Borntraeger , Peter Krempa Markus Armbruster writes: > Kevin Wolf writes: > >> Am 10.07.2018 um 16:22 hat Cornelia Huck geschrieben: >>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:59:15 +0200 >>> Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> >>> > In addition to actively pulling libvirt developers into review of >>> > deprecation patches, we should pursue the idea to optionally let QEMU >>> > fail on use of deprecated features, then have libvirt run its test suite >>> > that way. >>> >>> What about the following: >>> >>> qemu_deprecated_option("old_option", "modern_option"); >>> >>> Which would then print (in normal operation) >>> >>> "WARNING: 'old_option' is deprecated and will be removed; use 'modern_option' instead" >>> >>> to the monitor (or to stderr? to both?). >>> >>> If you start QEMU with a -no-deprecated-options switch, it would print >>> >>> "ERROR: 'old_option' is deprecated and will be removed; use 'modern_option' instead" >>> >>> and do an exit(1). >>> >>> Would that be workable? >> >> I think the function should just take a message: >> >> /* Works like error_report(), except for the WARNING/ERROR prefix >> * and exit(1) if -no-deprecated-options is set */ >> void deprecation_report(const char *fmt, ...); > > I like it. The contract could use a bit of polish, but that's detail. Suggest --deprecated={silent,warn,error}, default silent. [...]