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Re: [PULL v2 00/13] misc patches removing deprecated features
From: |
Ian Jackson |
Subject: |
Re: [PULL v2 00/13] misc patches removing deprecated features |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:54:51 +0000 |
Peter Maydell writes ("Re: [PULL v2 00/13] misc patches removing deprecated
features"):
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 09:30, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Remove many old deprecated features
> >
> > The following features have been deprecated for well over the 2
> > release cycle we promise
> >
> > ``-drive file=json:{...{'driver':'file'}}`` (since 3.0)
> > ``-vnc acl`` (since 4.0.0)
> > ``-mon ...,control=readline,pretty=on|off`` (since 4.1)
> > ``migrate_set_downtime`` and ``migrate_set_speed`` (since 2.8.0)
> > ``query-named-block-nodes`` result ``encryption_key_missing`` (since
> > 2.10.0)
> > ``query-block`` result ``inserted.encryption_key_missing`` (since 2.10.0)
> > ``migrate-set-cache-size`` and ``query-migrate-cache-size`` (since 2.11.0)
> > ``query-named-block-nodes`` and ``query-block`` result
> > dirty-bitmaps[i].status (since 4.0)
> > ``query-cpus`` (since 2.12.0)
> > ``query-cpus-fast`` ``arch`` output member (since 3.0.0)
> > ``query-events`` (since 4.0)
> > chardev client socket with ``wait`` option (since 4.0)
> > ``acl_show``, ``acl_reset``, ``acl_policy``, ``acl_add``, ``acl_remove``
> > (since 4.0.0)
> > ``ide-drive`` (since 4.2)
> > ``scsi-disk`` (since 4.2)
>
> Just FYI, it turns out that removing 'query-cpus' has broken Xen,
> whose libxl control library is still using it:
>
> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2021-03/msg01178.html
>
> This suggests we should probably try to coordinate a bit better
> with Xen as one of our downstream QMP users.
>
> Am I right in thinking that QEMU now has an option that Xen
> could turn on in their CI for "make attempts to use deprecated
> features fail" so they could catch them earlier in the
> deprecate-and-delete cycle?
That would be really great for us.
Thanks,
Ian.
- [PULL 07/13] chardev: reject use of 'wait' flag for socket client chardevs, (continued)
- [PULL 07/13] chardev: reject use of 'wait' flag for socket client chardevs, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- [PULL 08/13] hw/ide: remove 'ide-drive' device, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- [PULL 09/13] hw/scsi: remove 'scsi-disk' device, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- [PULL 10/13] block: remove 'encryption_key_missing' flag from QAPI, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- [PULL 11/13] block: remove dirty bitmaps 'status' field, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- [PULL 12/13] block: remove 'dirty-bitmaps' field from 'BlockInfo' struct, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- [PULL 13/13] block: remove support for using "file" driver with block/char devices, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2021/03/18
- Re: [PULL v2 00/13] misc patches removing deprecated features, Peter Maydell, 2021/03/18
- Re: [PULL v2 00/13] misc patches removing deprecated features, Peter Maydell, 2021/03/22