[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial

[Peter Maydell]

On 3 July 2018 at 12:32, Kevin Wolf <kwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> Am 03.07.2018 um 13:22 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
>> Just posted latest version here:
>>
>>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-July/msg00130.html
>>
>> It will be in the next release on ~ Aug 1st
>
> It would have been a lot nicer to have it the July release because this
> means that we'll have the released libvirt broken during almost the
> whole rc phase of QEMU 3.0, but the release is planned for Aug 8th the
> earliest, so I guess we're still okay. People using QEMU from git will
> just need libvirt from git as well.

I'm still not clear what we gain from having a QEMU that's dropped
a feature that is still used by everything except leading-edge
not-yet-released versions of libvirt. Is there a strong reason we
can't just revert the deletion of the deprecated feature for a QEMU
release or two?

thanks
-- PMM