On 05.09.2017 10:04, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:09:17PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 04.09.2017 19:19, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> Nobody has mentioned AIX host support on the mailing list for years, >>> and we have no test systems for it so it is most likely broken. >>> We've advertised in configure for two releases now that we plan >>> to drop support for this host OS, and have had no complaints. >> >> We just added this some weeks ago to our qemu-doc.texi: >> >> "Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how long >> features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor any documented >> list of which features were deprecated. Thus any features deprecated >> prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if they were first deprecated in the >> 2.10.0 release." >> >> Should we maybe wait two more releases (for version 3.0 ;-)) 'till we >> remove it? > > The deprecation policy is for features which currently work and which we > expect to have actual users. Neither is the case with AIX support, so I > don't see any reason to keep it longer.
OK, then let's remove the dead AIX code in 2.11 already! Thomas
