Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/6] Use machine options to emulate -no-kvm-irqchip

[Anthony Liguori]

Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2012-10-03 17:03, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 09:40:17AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Commit 3ad763fcba5bd0ec5a79d4a9b6baeef119dd4a3d from qemu-kvm.git.
>>>>
>>>> From: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>>>>     
>>>> Upstream is moving towards this mechanism, so start using it in qemu-kvm
>>>> already to configure the specific defaults: kvm enabled on, just like
>>>> in-kernel irqchips.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
>>>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> Although it's a little odd to have From: Jan without a SoB...
>> 
>> Agree, Jan can you ACK?
>
> I wasn't able to join the call yesterday: Is there a removal schedule
> associated with those switches? Also, why pushing things upstream, even
> when only for one release, that have been loudly deprecated for a while
> in qemu-kvm? Some switches are lacking deprecated warnings on the
> console, and -no-kvm is missing completely. I tend to focus on patch 1 &
> 5, dropping the rest - based on relevance for production use.

The distros need to keep these flags to do the switch.  I see no point
in deprecating them since they're trivially easy to maintain.

So we'd just support them forever.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Jan