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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qapi: SupportStatusInfo struct


From: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qapi: SupportStatusInfo struct
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:20:58 -0300
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Hi Eduardo,


On 04/23/2019 06:22 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
This struct will be used to represent support and deprecation
status of QEMU features.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
---
  qapi/common.json | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qapi/common.json b/qapi/common.json
index 99d313ef3b..b59d0dc66b 100644
--- a/qapi/common.json
+++ b/qapi/common.json
@@ -193,3 +193,27 @@
               'ppc64', 'riscv32', 'riscv64', 's390x', 'sh4',
               'sh4eb', 'sparc', 'sparc64', 'tricore', 'unicore32',
               'x86_64', 'xtensa', 'xtensaeb' ] }
+
+##
+# @SupportStatusInfo:
+#
+# Information on support status of a given feature
+# (e.g. machine type)
+#
+# @deprecated: if true, the given feature is deprecated and may be removed
+#              in future versions of QEMU according to the QEMU deprecation
+#              policy.

Eventually management software will need the know the QEMU version the feature is planed for removal. So makes sense to include a field to capture that information as well or do you expect it to be added (as a good practice) in the 'status-message'?

- Wainer

+#
+# @status-message: Human readable message describing support status
+#                  of the feature.
+#
+# @suggested-alternative: Optional.  Suggested alternative for a deprecated
+#                         feature.  For machine types, this should be the name
+#                         of an available machine-type.
+#
+# Since: 4.1
+##
+{ 'struct': 'SupportStatusInfo',
+  'data': { 'deprecated': 'bool',
+            '*status-message': 'str',
+            '*suggested-alternative': 'str' } }




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