Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate '-enable-kvm' and '-enable-hax' in favour of '-accel'

[Thomas Huth]

On 02.05.2017 18:08, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
[...]
>>> So the first lesson should be "no deprecation
>>> without documentation" (any reference to 18th century political slogans
>>> is purely coincidential :)).
>> Would you accept my patch if I'd remove the hunks for vl.c, i.e. a patch
>> that just updates the documentation?
> 
> No, updating the documentation is pointless if you don't improve it at
> the same time.
> 
> I don't like writing it so often, especially to someone who is a
> relatively experienced contributor, but the common word in all these
> reviews is "pointless".  What is the *purpose* of this work?

Marking the -enable-xxx options in the documentation as deprecated would
maybe at least prevent that we end up with more
-enable-mynewcoolaccelerator options in the future, like we did with
-enable-hax now.

But ok, I got the message, and I'll shut up here now. Sorry for wasting
your time.

 Thomas