On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:40 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 03:45:35PM +0100, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: > > On Monday, November 25, 2019, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > The r4k machine was introduced in 2005 (6af0bf9c7) and its last > > > logical change was in 2005 (9542611a6). After we can count 164 > > > maintenance commits (QEMU API changes) with the exception of > > > 1 fix in 2015 (memory leak, commit 3ad9fd5a). > > > > > > > > Please don't start any deprecation process. This requires certain > > consultation within my company. Rest assured that everyone's opinion will > > be taken into account while doing consiltation. > > The idea of having a deprecation process is precisely to > allow time for people like to provide feedback before any > deletion takes place. So this is not a reason to delay > starting of deprecation. >
What you said is fine, Daniel, I understand the idea, and it should be that way. But I didn't ask for some lengthy negotiation, or waiting for someone for months, but I just wanted to check within company if all relevant people (that do not read QEMU devel list very often) agree - since we, naturally, do various in-house setups with QEMU for MIPS, that's all. This could count as the discussion on the patch, not as a part of that loooooong "deprecated" state... All is well, Aleksandar > The process lasts for 2 releases before we delete anything: > > https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Deprecated-features > > When we start the clock now, it is deprecated when 5.0 releases > in April 2020, and still deprecated with 5.1 in August 2020. > > The code won't be deleted until Sep 2020 when 5.2 dev cycle opens, > and there's still time to undelete it right up until the 5.2 feature > freeze in late Oct 2020. That's 11 months away, which is plenty of > time for feedback IMHO. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| >
