Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 17 December 2012 14:05, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> The writing has been on the wall for a few years. > > ...behind a filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door > saying "beware of the leopard"? > > We really need a better way to mark devices as "obsolete, will be > removed/broken/etc in a future version"...
Yes, we do. These devices, however, are a slightly different case: "need maintenance, will be removed unless they get it". I've asked for them to be updated on several occasions, on the list[*], and in person at the last three KVM Forums. Having your board in the tree is a privilege, not a right. You earn the privilege by doing your share of the work. In my opinion, that includes moving them off obsolete infrastructure in a timely manner, at least when keeping the obsolete infrastructure around just for you becomes a drag. Which it definitely has been in case of IDE. [*] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg00621.html
