Re: [PATCH 11/11] Deprecate stable non-JSON -device and -object

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:15:43AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 24/09/21 11:04, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > We want to switch both from QemuOpts to the keyval parser in the future,
> > which results in some incompatibilities, mainly around list handling.
> > Mark the non-JSON version of both as unstable syntax so that management
> > tools switch to JSON and we can later make the change without breaking
> > things.
> 
> Maybe we need a different section for unstable syntaxes, rather than
> overloading deprecated.rst?

This case feels like it hits two scenarios - we want to declare it
unstable, which is something we should document in qemu-options.hx.
We want to also to warn of specific breakage when the impl changes
which is something suitable for deprecations.


Regards,
Daniel
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