Re: [PATCH 1/4] qom: allow to mark objects (including devices) as deprecated.

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 11:54:56AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Add deprecation_note field (string) to ObjectClass.
> Add deprecated bool to ObjectTypeInfo, report in 'qom-list-types'.
> Print the note when listing devices via '-device help'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/qom/object.h  | 1 +
>  qom/qom-qmp-cmds.c    | 4 ++++
>  system/qdev-monitor.c | 5 +++++
>  qapi/qom.json         | 4 +++-
>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I think that object.c, object_init_with_type() should be printing
a message on stderr when creating an instance of a deprecated
object/device, since we do that with machine types and CPUs that
are deprecated.


With regards,
Daniel
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