On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 11:28, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:18:42PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > ``QEMU_AUDIO_`` environment variables and ``-audio-help`` (since 4.0) > > > Creating sound card devices and vnc without ``audiodev=`` property > > > (since 4.2) > > > Creating sound card devices using ``-soundhw`` (since 5.1) > > > > I think these three should be dropped together, to minimize disruption. > > > > Where do we strand in terms of libvirt support? IIRC audiodev= support > > in libvirt is rather recent (merged this year). I'd tend to wait a bit > > longer because of that. > > > > Daniel? > > Libvirt added supoort for -audio in 7.2.0, release April 4th, so only > one month ago. > > If we drop the features in QEMU in this dev cycle though, this won't > impact most users until QEMU 6.1 releases in mid August. I'm perfectly > ok with people who use unreleased QEMU git master needing to update > their libvirt. The final release date is far enough away that distros > will have had new enough libvirt for a good while.
It does feel to me that dropping the old options now would be being a bit over-eager, though. The deprecation cycle time is a minimum, not a target :-) -- PMM
