Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
This series extends QMP introspection to cover deprecation. Additionally, new option -compat lets you configure what to do when deprecated interfaces get used. This is intended for testing users of the management interfaces. It is experimental.
-compat deprecated-input=<in-policy> configures what to do when deprecated input is received. Available policies:
* accept: Accept deprecated commands and arguments (default) * reject: Reject them * crash: Crash
-compat deprecated-output=<out-policy> configures what to do when deprecated output is sent. Available output policies:
* accept: Emit deprecated command results and events (default) * hide: Suppress them
For now, -compat covers only deprecated syntactic aspects of QMP. We may want to extend it to cover semantic aspects, CLI, and experimental features.
PATCH 01-04: Documentation fixes PATCH 05-10: Test improvements PATCH 11-24: Add feature flags to remaining user-defined types and to struct members PATCH 25-26: New special feature 'deprecated', visible in introspection PATCH 27-34: New -compat to set policy for handling stuff marked with feature 'deprecated'
Queued PATCH 01-26. Thanks for the reviews that made this possible! PATCH 27-34 will have to wait for 5.1.