Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/6] hw/i386: deprecate the pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 machines

[Thomas Huth]

On 08.11.2017 10:13, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:28:00AM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Hi Alexey,
>>
>> On 11/07/2017 11:48 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> On 08/11/17 13:28, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> Both are deprecated since 2.9.0
>>>
>>> May be so but I could not find where this happened in git history:
>>>
>>> [vpl1 qemu]$ git log -n1 --grep 'pc-0.10'
>>> f6d5a0bad2 2 years, 5 months ago Eduardo Habkost piix: Define PC_COMPAT_0_10
>>>
>>> Having some pointers in the commit log would be helpful imho, like [2/6].
>>
>> Ok! If there is positive feedback on this series I'll respin trying to
>> be more verbose.
>>
>> I took "2.9.0" from the wiki history [1], which is the formal way to go
>> as I understand:
> 
> No, the wiki page content was just an initial jumping off point for
> discussions.  The formal list of what's deprecated is kept in the
> qemu-doc.texi file in the "Deprecated features" appendix.
> 
> We really ought to remove most of the content from that wiki page
> and just point to the formal docs,  to avoid continued confusion
> like this.

I've changed the wording on the wiki page and added a pointer to the
qemu-doc there, so it's hopefully now clearer that the qemu-doc is the
mandatory list of deprecated features / interfaces.

 Thomas