Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This series extends QMP introspection to cover deprecation. > Additionally, new option -compat lets you configure what to do when > deprecated interfaces get used. This is intended for testing users of > the management interfaces. It is experimental. > > -compat deprecated-input=<in-policy> configures what to do when > deprecated input is received. Available policies: > > * accept: Accept deprecated commands and arguments (default) > * reject: Reject them > * crash: Crash > > -compat deprecated-output=<out-policy> configures what to do when > deprecated output is sent. Available output policies: > > * accept: Emit deprecated command results and events (default) > * hide: Suppress them > > For now, -compat covers only deprecated syntactic aspects of QMP. We > may want to extend it to cover semantic aspects, CLI, and experimental > features. > > PATCH 01-04: Documentation fixes > PATCH 05-10: Test improvements > PATCH 11-24: Add feature flags to remaining user-defined types and to > struct members > PATCH 25-26: New special feature 'deprecated', visible in > introspection > PATCH 27-34: New -compat to set policy for handling stuff marked with > feature 'deprecated' Queued PATCH 01-26. Thanks for the reviews that made this possible! PATCH 27-34 will have to wait for 5.1.
