On 11/11/20 14:08, Kevin Wolf wrote:
These aliases only work the command line, but not in QMP. Command line QAPIfication involves writing some compatibility glue for them, which I'm doing, but I think it's desirable to unify accepted values of both paths. So deprecate the aliases so that we can drop the compatibility glue later.
In the deprecation documentation I assumed that this is for 6.0, but if we want to include it in 5.2 still, this can be changed, of course.
Kevin Wolf (2): char: Skip CLI aliases in query-chardev-backends char: Deprecate backend aliases 'tty' and 'parport'
docs/system/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++ chardev/char.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Even though I disagree with QAPIfying -chardev, this one is obviously a good thing. Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Paolo