Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> writes: > On Wed, 26 May 2021 17:21:03 -0300 > "Bruno Larsen (billionai)" <bruno.lar...@eldorado.org.br> wrote: > >> Since ppc was the last architecture to collect these statistics and >> it is currently phasing this collection out, the command that would query >> this information is being removed. >> > > So this is removing an obviously user visible feature. This should be > mentioned in docs/system/removed-features.rst... but, wait, I don't > see anything for it in docs/system/deprecated.rst. This is dropping > a feature without following the usual deprecation policy, i.e. > marking the feature as deprecated and only remove it 2 QEMU versions > later. Any justification for that ?
Our deprecation policy applies to stable interfaces, which HMP is not. We don't break things there just because. But dropping a command right away when it is no longer useful is just fine. No need to deprecate and wait for the grace period. [...]
