From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faKa2-0005xc-Hh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:38:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faKZz-0001C4-MD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:38:50 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:41674 helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faKZz-0001Bh-HF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:38:47 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098417.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w63CTQ20051490 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2018 08:38:47 -0400 Received: from e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.97]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2k08vvhba6-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:38:46 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:38:42 +0100 References: <20180622125502.GF4366@localhost.localdomain> <20180622142513.GH4366@localhost.localdomain> <20180622143146.GQ23296@redhat.com> <20180625095322.GC18580@redhat.com> <20180625114106.GJ5024@localhost.localdomain> <20180625114528.GL16514@angien.pipo.sk> <20180702080411.GA4299@localhost.localdomain> <60f6bf3c-6cad-c86f-01d7-8c376a6ccfe0@de.ibm.com> <20180703111949.GB24516@redhat.com> <20180703113229.GD3812@localhost.localdomain> From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:38:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 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: Peter Maydell , Kevin Wolf Cc: "=?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P._Berrang=c3=a9?=" , Peter Krempa , Boris Fiuczynski , Qemu-block , Libvirt , QEMU Developers On 07/03/2018 01:35 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 3 July 2018 at 12:32, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> Am 03.07.2018 um 13:22 hat Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 geschrieben: >>> Just posted latest version here: >>> >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-July/msg00130.html >>> >>> It will be in the next release on ~ Aug 1st >> >> It would have been a lot nicer to have it the July release because this >> means that we'll have the released libvirt broken during almost the >> whole rc phase of QEMU 3.0, but the release is planned for Aug 8th the >> earliest, so I guess we're still okay. People using QEMU from git will >> just need libvirt from git as well. >=20 > I'm still not clear what we gain from having a QEMU that's dropped > a feature that is still used by everything except leading-edge > not-yet-released versions of libvirt. Is there a strong reason we > can't just revert the deletion of the deprecated feature for a QEMU > release or two? +1