Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/26] block: Remove deprecated -drive option serial

On 3 July 2018 at 12:32, Kevin Wolf <kwolf(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Am 03.07.2018 um 13:22 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben: >> Just posted latest version here: >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-July/msg00130.html >> >> It will be in the next release on ~ Aug 1st > > It would have been a lot nicer to have it the July release because this > means that we'll have the released libvirt broken during almost the > whole rc phase of QEMU 3.0, but the release is planned for Aug 8th the > earliest, so I guess we're still okay. People using QEMU from git will > just need libvirt from git as well. I'm still not clear what we gain from having a QEMU that's dropped a feature that is still used by everything except leading-edge not-yet-released versions of libvirt. Is there a strong reason we can't just revert the deletion of the deprecated feature for a QEMU release or two?