[PATCH 0/2] char: Deprecate backend aliases
Paolo Bonzini
pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed Nov 11 13:22:16 UTC 2020
On 11/11/20 14:08, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> These aliases only work the command line, but not in QMP. Command line
> QAPIfication involves writing some compatibility glue for them, which
> I'm doing, but I think it's desirable to unify accepted values of both
> paths. So deprecate the aliases so that we can drop the compatibility
> glue later.
>
> In the deprecation documentation I assumed that this is for 6.0, but if
> we want to include it in 5.2 still, this can be changed, of course.
>
> Kevin Wolf (2):
> char: Skip CLI aliases in query-chardev-backends
> char: Deprecate backend aliases 'tty' and 'parport'
>
> docs/system/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++
> chardev/char.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Even though I disagree with QAPIfying -chardev, this one is obviously a
good thing.
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Paolo
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