On a Saturday in 2024, Markus Armbruster wrote:
It's an alias for "ringbuf" we kept for backward compatibility; see commit 3a1da42eb35 (qapi: Rename ChardevBackend member "memory" to "ringbuf"). Deprecation is long overdue. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ qapi/char.json | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index d4492b9460..ae1a520c26 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -371,6 +371,14 @@ Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on the command line using the used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that provides a password via a file, or encrypted. +Character device options +'''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Backend ``memory`` (since 9.0) +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +``memory`` is a deprecated synonym for ``ringbuf``. +
For libvirt: Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx> (We don't support either of those) Jano
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