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

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> 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. :)

It was, or else -accel 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.

Seconded.  I hope your patches and our discussion lead us towards a
saner, more consistent documented public interface.