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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/05/2017 18:19, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> 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.

That assumes -enable-hax was a mistake. :)

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

That absolutely wasn't the intent, sorry.  The intent is to make your
efforts more useful.

Paolo