Re: [PATCH] Deprecate C virtiofsd

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 04:50:40PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
> do new work on that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Vivek

> ---
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 47a594a3b6..3a0e15f8f5 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -454,3 +454,17 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
>  
>  The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
>  As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
> +
> +Tools
> +-----
> +
> +virtiofsd
> +'''''''''
> +
> +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofs`` at
> +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
> +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
> +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
> +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
> +are already in development for the moment.
> +
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>