Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 2/3] virtio-blk: fail get_features when both scsi and 1.0 were set

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:37:44 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 23/07/2015 11:07, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > Paolo said this specific feature has been deprecated for years, no
> > > one should be using it, so we dropped it from spec.
> >
> > Nothing wrong with that. But "it's deprecated" does not mean "nobody's
> > using it", I fear. The question is: Should qemu accommodate those users?
> 
> "It's deprecated" does mean (or at least can mean) "it's going to go
> away in relatively exceptional circumstances".  virtio 1 counts as
> relatively exceptional, I think.

OK, if the consensus is "you should not be using it; but if you really
need it, you can get it back with a config switch", I won't oppose that.