From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL 31/31] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f61447bf-f556-b626-4a6c-f86e724b0f7f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8VCGmqbdLFLQ0R9Uun4MzxLTnOZExmYJZ65qZ_fjDUvg@mail.gmail.com>
On 16/02/21 12:58, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 11:23, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I agree, and that's why I have no plans to move -chardev off QemuOpts;
>> warning is a different step than excising and sometimes years pass from
>> one to the other. However, that doesn't prevent introducing a warning
>> so that users slowly move away from the problematic functionality.
>
> If we want to continue to support the functionality then complaining
> about it doesn't serve much purpose IMHO.
It depends. I don't want to support it forever for all options;
-machine, -accel and -object are those for which I do intend to remove
support for short-form options after the two release deprecation period.
My first submission of this patch even special cased "-chardev" to hide
the warning, but this was dropped in response to reviews.
(https://patchew.org/QEMU/20201103151452.416784-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/20201103151452.416784-5-pbonzini@redhat.com/).
I can add that back if you prefer, since it's very simple.
Paolo
> A bunch of my local scripts for running QEMU got hit by this new
> deprecation warning; "git grep 'chardev.*nowait'" gets hits in
> our documentation; if you google for 'chardev "server,nowait"' there
> are plenty of in-the-wild uses.
>
> Is there any other serious use of the 'no' prefix other than
> 'nowait' ? Perhaps we could get most of the benefit here by
> banning the 'no' prefix and adding a compatibility 'nowait'
> bool which had the inverse sense to the existing 'wait' bool ?
> (TBH I had assumed that 'nowait' was already implemented that
> way; 'nodelay' is.)
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-23 14:30 [PULL 00/31] Misc patches for 2020-01-21 Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:30 ` [PULL 01/31] runstate: cleanup reboot and panic actions Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:30 ` [PULL 02/31] configure: MinGW respect --bindir argument Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 03/31] x86/cpu: Use max host physical address if -cpu max option is applied Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 04/31] build-system: clean up TCG/TCI configury Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-06 18:01 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-06 19:08 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 05/31] util/cacheflush: Fix error generated by clang Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 06/31] softmmu/physmem: Silence GCC 10 maybe-uninitialized error Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 07/31] ide: atapi: check logical block address and read size (CVE-2020-29443) Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 08/31] build-sys: remove unused LIBS Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 09/31] build-sys: set global arguments for cflags/ldflags Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 10/31] build-sys: add libvhost-user missing dependencies Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 11/31] slirp: update to git master Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 12/31] meson: Declare have_virtfs_proxy_helper in main meson.build Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 13/31] nsis: adjust for new MinGW paths Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 14/31] meson: convert wixl detection to Meson Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 15/31] meson: Summarize information related to directories first Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 16/31] meson: Display host binaries information altogether Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 17/31] meson: Summarize overall features altogether Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 18/31] meson: Summarize compilation-related information altogether Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 19/31] meson: Display accelerators and selected targets altogether Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 20/31] meson: Display block layer information altogether Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 21/31] meson: Display crypto-related " Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 22/31] meson: Add a section header for library dependencies Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 23/31] meson.build: Declare global edk2_targets / install_edk2_blobs variables Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 24/31] meson.build: Detect bzip2 program Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 25/31] acceptance: switch to QMP change-vnc-password command Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 26/31] hmp: remove "change vnc TARGET" command Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 27/31] qmp: remove deprecated "change" command Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 28/31] vnc: support "-vnc help" Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 29/31] qemu-option: clean up id vs. list->merge_lists Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-25 7:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-01-25 7:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 30/31] qemu-option: move help handling to get_opt_name_value Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-23 14:31 ` [PULL 31/31] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-15 19:56 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-15 23:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-16 9:58 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-16 10:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-16 11:04 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-16 11:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-16 11:58 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-16 13:30 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-02-16 13:36 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-16 13:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-16 14:11 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-16 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-16 14:51 ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-16 14:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-16 13:53 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-23 14:57 ` [PULL 00/31] Misc patches for 2020-01-21 no-reply
2021-01-23 19:52 ` Peter Maydell
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