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

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 July 2018 at 15:56, Kevin Wolf <kwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
> Am 06.07.2018 um 13:11 hat Cornelia Huck geschrieben:
>> That way, we can still easily remove old cruft (case (a)), but still
>> accommodate cases like this (case (c)). The obvious drawback is that
>> we'd need someone to curate the deprecation watchlist, to poke the
>> users we're waiting for, and probably remove anyway after some time if
>> they don't get their act together.
>
> The problem is that things are only starting to move after two releases
> have passed.

Right, so clearly just "put a note in the documentation" isn't
sufficient advertisement/prodding of things going away. (Also, two
releases is pretty fast. Many of our users will be using distro
packaged versions of QEMU which will lag further behind than
bleeding-edge users. The system version of QEMU on my desktop
machine is 2.5...)

thanks
-- PMM