Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Removing old command line options

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:38, Brad Hards <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've been trying to update the documentation (currently on neworking), and one
> of the things that makes it hard is that there are a few old (legacy) command
> line options (e.g. --tftp).
>
> Removing them is easy, but not really nice to users who depend on them. So I
> was thinking about a migration approach.
>
> I came up with two alternatives.
>
> Simplest approach is just to add a warning for the next release, and remove
> the option in the next+1 release.

I vote the above alternative.... simply because in the end, user needs
to be notified real soon and they need to think for the alternative
real soon too. Delaying such action just will make situation worse.

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