Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > On 02/05/2017 18:19, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> I don't like writing it so often, especially to someone who is a >>> relatively experienced contributor, but the common word in all these >>> reviews is "pointless". What is the *purpose* of this work? >> >> Marking the -enable-xxx options in the documentation as deprecated would >> maybe at least prevent that we end up with more >> -enable-mynewcoolaccelerator options in the future, like we did with >> -enable-hax now. > > That assumes -enable-hax was a mistake. :)
It was, or else -accel was a mistake. >> But ok, I got the message, and I'll shut up here now. Sorry for wasting >> your time. > > That absolutely wasn't the intent, sorry. The intent is to make your > efforts more useful. Seconded. I hope your patches and our discussion lead us towards a saner, more consistent documented public interface.
