On 2/4/21 1:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: And I promptly forgot to save my changes in my editor. Consider this squashed in: diff --git i/docs/system/deprecated.rst w/docs/system/deprecated.rst index c404c3926e6f..8e5e05a10642 100644 --- i/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ w/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -154,6 +154,15 @@ Input parameters that take a size value should only use a size suffix the value is hexadecimal. That is, '0x20M' is deprecated, and should be written either as '32M' or as '0x2000000'. +inexact sizes via scaled fractions (since 6.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Input parameters that take a size value should only use a fractional +size (such as '1.5M') that will result in an exact byte value. The +use of inexact values (such as '1.1M') that require truncation or +rounding is deprecated, and you should instead consider writing your +unusual size in bytes (here, '1153433' or '1153434' as desired). + QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands ------------------------------------ -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org