Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 07/03/2018 01:35 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 3 July 2018 at 12:32, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Am 03.07.2018 um 13:22 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
>>> Just posted latest version here:
>>>
>>>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-July/msg00130.html
>>>
>>> It will be in the next release on ~ Aug 1st
>>
>> It would have been a lot nicer to have it the July release because this
>> means that we'll have the released libvirt broken during almost the
>> whole rc phase of QEMU 3.0, but the release is planned for Aug 8th the
>> earliest, so I guess we're still okay. People using QEMU from git will
>> just need libvirt from git as well.
> 
> I'm still not clear what we gain from having a QEMU that's dropped
> a feature that is still used by everything except leading-edge
> not-yet-released versions of libvirt. Is there a strong reason we
> can't just revert the deletion of the deprecated feature for a QEMU
> release or two?

+1