[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 01/11] tests: Add test case for x86 feature parsing compatibility

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 09:55:33AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 29/09/2016 23:14, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > +     * "-foo" overrides "+foo"
> > +     * "[+-]foo" overrides "foo=..."
> 
> Is this something that people are actually using?  Can we detect it and
> deprecate it in 2.8, and drop it in 2.9?

We can, but I would like to keep the test cases there in 2.8, at
least. I will update the test case to note that this is legacy
behavior that we plan to remove in 2.9, and send a separate
follow-up patch to detect when people mix both formats.

-- 
Eduardo