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(a)redhat.com>
Paolo