On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:10:32 +0200 Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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. > > [...] > Ah, good to know. Thanks! -- Greg
