[PATCH v2 3/4] utils: Deprecate hex-with-suffix sizes
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
philmd at redhat.com
Thu Feb 11 22:59:16 UTC 2021
On 2/11/21 9:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Supporting '0x20M' looks odd, particularly since we have a 'B' suffix
> that is ambiguous for bytes, as well as a less-frequently-used 'E'
> suffix for extremely large exibytes. In practice, people using hex
> inputs are specifying values in bytes (and would have written
> 0x2000000, or possibly relied on default_suffix in the case of
> qemu_strtosz_MiB), and the use of scaling suffixes makes the most
> sense for inputs in decimal (where the user would write 32M). But
> rather than outright dropping support for hex-with-suffix, let's
> follow our deprecation policy. Sadly, since qemu_strtosz() does not
> have an Err** parameter, and plumbing that in would be a much larger
> task, we instead go with just directly emitting the deprecation
> warning to stderr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
> util/cutils.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd at redhat.com>
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