On 10/08/2017 10:46, Thomas Huth wrote: > Now that we've got a list of deprecated interfaces/features in the QEMU > documentation, it is time to draw some more public attention to our plans > of removing certain interfaces/features in future releases. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > --- > v2: Use a link to the qemu-doc instead of pointing to the Wiki > > _posts/2017-08-10-deprecation.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 _posts/2017-08-10-deprecation.md > > diff --git a/_posts/2017-08-10-deprecation.md > b/_posts/2017-08-10-deprecation.md > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..784fb79 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/_posts/2017-08-10-deprecation.md > @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ > +--- > +layout: post > +title: "Deprecation of old parameters and features" > +date: 2017-08-10 10:45:00 +0200 > +author: Thomas Huth > +categories: [features, 'web site'] > +--- > +QEMU has a lot of interfaces (like command line options or HMP commands) and > +old features (like certain devices) which are considered as deprecated > +since other more generic or better interfaces/features have been established > +instead. While the QEMU developers are generally trying to keep each QEMU > +release compatible with the previous ones, the old legacy sometimes gets into > +the way when developing new code and/or causes quite some burden of > maintaining > +it. > + > +Thus we are currently considering to get rid of some of the old interfaces > +and features in a future release and have started to collect a list of such > +old items in our > +[QEMU > documentation](https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Deprecated-features). > +If you are running QEMU directly, please have a look at this deprecation > +chapter of the QEMU documentation to see whether you are still using one of > +these old interfaces or features, so you can adapt your setup to use the new > +interfaces/features instead. Or if you rather think that one of the items > +should *not* be removed from QEMU at all, please speak up on the > +[qemu-devel mailing list](http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/MailingLists) > +to explain why the interface or feature is still required. >
Pushed, thanks. Paolo
