Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/6] Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip

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On 2012-10-04 18:13, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 04.10.2012 18:04, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>> On 2012-10-04 17:36, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Am 04.10.2012 16:30, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>>>> On 2012-10-04 16:21, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>  - avoid adding them to the help or other user documentation
>>>
>>> That's dangerous - at some point someone will notice and propose a patch
>>> documenting them and the reviewers may have forgotten by then why it was
>>> not documented in the first place. Better clearly document them in help
>>> output as "DEPRECATED, to be removed in future versions" or so.
>>
>> -M is marked as deprecated in the file that you would have to mess up.
> 
> If it's not within +/- 3 lines and goes through qemu-trivial then that
> point is moot. Don't see how deprecation of -no-kvm-irqchip et al. is
> related to -M being deprecated either way.

I'm only citing an example that these switches should follow:

[qemu-options.hx]
HXCOMM Deprecated by -machine
DEF("M", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_M, "", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)

Jan

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