Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/17] iotests: ask qemu for supported formats

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/06/2018 09:50, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 
>> There's no real need to kill off '?', unless it gets in the way of
>> steering people towards 'help'.  We should steer them toward 'help',
>> because '?' is a trap for insufficiently sophisticated users of
>> shell[*].
> ... and I agree with your points here.
> 
> => I think we need a second list of deprecated feature (maybe we should
> call them "legacy features" instead of "deprecated"?), i.e. a list of
> features which we don't recommend for new code / scripts anymore, but
> which we do not intend to remove via our official deprecation policy any
> time soon. Things like "--enable-kvm" / "-no-kvm" or maybe even "-net"
> go into the same category.

Yes, "-net" definitely goes there.

> If you agree, I can try to come up with a patch (should the list go into
> qemu-doc.texi or a separate document in the the documentation folder?).

I think it should go in docs/devel.

Paolo