On 2/11/21 9:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have a 'B' suffix > that is ambiguous for bytes, as well as a less-frequently-used 'E' > suffix for extremely large exibytes. In practice, people using hex > inputs are specifying values in bytes (and would have written > 0x2000000, or possibly relied on default_suffix in the case of > qemu_strtosz_MiB), and the use of scaling suffixes makes the most > sense for inputs in decimal (where the user would write 32M). But > rather than outright dropping support for hex-with-suffix, let's > follow our deprecation policy. Sadly, since qemu_strtosz() does not > have an Err** parameter, and plumbing that in would be a much larger > task, we instead go with just directly emitting the deprecation > warning to stderr. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ > util/cutils.c | 10 +++++++++- > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx>
