From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: dave@treblig.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, mjt@tls.msk.ru,
laurent@vivier.eu
Cc: jak@jak-linux.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: Replace deprecated -M example
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 08:14:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95dd7914-8e58-42e7-9988-cd7822f17bca@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251202005740.299524-1-dave@treblig.org>
On 02/12/2025 01.57, dave@treblig.org wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
>
> The -M option was deprecated by -machine in 2011 by 80f52a669
> and isn't actually documented in the manpage, but is still used in
> one of the examples. Replace it by -machine.
> -M still gets used all over the place in other docs, and I'm
> not sure I realised it was deprecated until Julian pointed out it
> wasn't actually documented.
-M is not mentioned in docs/about/deprecated.rst, so no, it's not officially
deprecated. And I think it's a nice short hand feature for an option that is
used very often, so I also don't think that we should ever remove it. Thus I
think it would be better to simply add it back to qemu-options.hx instead.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-02 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-02 0:57 [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: Replace deprecated -M example dave
2025-12-02 7:14 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2025-12-02 7:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2025-12-02 12:30 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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