On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/14/20 3:47 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > >Policy is separate for input and output. > > > >Input policy can be "accept" (accept silently), or "reject" (reject > >the request with an error). > > > >Output policy can be "accept" (pass on unchanged), or "hide" (filter > >out the deprecated parts). > > > >Default is "accept". Policies other than "accept" are implemented > >later in this series. > > > >For now, -compat covers only syntactic aspects of QMP, i.e. stuff > >tagged with feature 'deprecated'. We may want to extend it to cover > >semantic aspects, CLI, and experimental features. > > > >The option is experimental. > > > >Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> > >--- > > Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > > But as Peter points out, where is the introspection for whether this > command line argument exists?
FWIW libguestfs still tests some qemu features by grepping -help output. That's actually what I'm intending to do with this one, at least for now. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
