[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] char: Add qemu_chr_write_nb() for nonblocking writes

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > I'm all for killing the blocking interface. Problem is that converting
> > over all users isn't exactly trivial and we have plenty of them. IMHO
> > it isn't realistic to do the switch with a single patch series.
>
> If we're agreed we ought to kill the blocking interface, let's define a
> new proper interface, rename all previous users to something ugly and
> deprecated, and approach it that way.

__attribute__ ((deprecated)) ?

cheers,
  Gerd