Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] char: Deprecate backend aliases

[Markus Armbruster]

Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:

> A small series from November that has fallen through the cracks...

Glad you remembered!

> These aliases only work the command line, but not in QMP. Command line
> QAPIfication involves writing some compatibility glue for them, which
> I'm doing, but I think it's desirable to unify accepted values of both
> paths. So deprecate the aliases so that we can drop the compatibility
> glue later.
>
> v2:
> - Don't mention deprecated options in the help [Markus]
>
> - Added third patch to simplify the code again. Markus had suggested
>   not complicating it in the first place, but then I would have to merge
>   patches 1 and 2 even though they address different points, so this
>   didn't feel very desirable.

Complicated review a bit, but I'm not sure the alternative would've been
easier.

Series
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Thanks!