On 20/01/21 13:59, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Verbose please. Do you think we should delay the conversion of
-M/-accel/-object to keyval until 6.2?
I concurred with "it's up for discussion". I'm happy do discuss, of
course.
What are the boolean parameters, and is there *any* evidence of use
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On 20/01/21 09:42, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> The alternative is to *outlaw* parameters "help" and "?" in QemuOpts.
>> I'd be cool with that. >
>>> My solution would be to deprecate the QMP "change vnc" command, and
>>> postpone switching -vnc to qemu_opts_parse_noisily t
On 20/01/21 09:42, Markus Armbruster wrote:
The alternative is to *outlaw* parameters "help" and "?" in QemuOpts.
I'd be cool with that. >
My solution would be to deprecate the QMP "change vnc" command, and
postpone switching -vnc to qemu_opts_parse_noisily to 6.2.
QMP command 'change' was dep
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On 19/01/21 16:56, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> +if (!is_help && warn_on_flag) {
>>> +warn_report("short-form boolean option '%s%s' deprecated",
>>> prefix, *name);
>>> +error_printf("Please use %s=%s instead\n", *name, *value);
On 19/01/21 16:56, Markus Armbruster wrote:
+if (!is_help && warn_on_flag) {
+warn_report("short-form boolean option '%s%s' deprecated",
prefix, *name);
+error_printf("Please use %s=%s instead\n", *name, *value);
+}
If @warn_on_flag, we w
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> Options such as "server" or "nowait", that are commonly found in -chardev,
> are sugar for "server=on" and "wait=off". This is quite surprising and
> also does not have any notion of typing attached. It is even possible to
> do "-device e1000,noid" and get a device with
