[Virtio-fs] [PATCH] Deprecate C virtiofsd

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 16:57, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
<dgilbert at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert at redhat.com>
>
> There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
> do new work on that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 47a594a3b6..3a0e15f8f5 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -454,3 +454,17 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
>
>  The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
>  As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
> +
> +Tools
> +-----
> +
> +virtiofsd
> +'''''''''
> +
> +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofs`` at

I guess there's a missing "d" here ?

> +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
> +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
> +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
> +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
> +are already in development for the moment.

thanks
-- PMM