[PATCH 1/2] char: Skip CLI aliases in query-chardev-backends

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 12.11.2020 um 09:22 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Kevin Wolf <kwolf at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > The aliases "tty" and "parport" are only valid on the command line, QMP
> > commands like chardev-add don't know them. query-chardev-backends should
> > describe QMP and therefore not include them in the list of available
> > backends.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf at redhat.com>
> 
> I'd call that a bug.

Which is why I'm fixing it, separate from the deprecation.

> In the light of PATCH 2, I propose to put that one first (with the
> help_string_append() hunk dropped), then remove the aliases from CLI
> help, too, like this: [...]

Going one step back without thinking in solutions immediately, what
you're suggesting is that deprecated options should become undocumented
instead of just annotated as deprecated?

Kevin