Am 12.11.2020 um 09:22 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:
The aliases "tty" and "parport" are only valid on the command line, QMP commands like chardev-add don't know them. query-chardev-backends should describe QMP and therefore not include them in the list of available backends.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
I'd call that a bug.
Which is why I'm fixing it, separate from the deprecation.
In the light of PATCH 2, I propose to put that one first (with the help_string_append() hunk dropped), then remove the aliases from CLI help, too, like this: [...]
Going one step back without thinking in solutions immediately, what you're suggesting is that deprecated options should become undocumented instead of just annotated as deprecated? Kevin