Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] qemu-options: New -compat to set policy for deprecated interfaces

[Eric Blake]

On 9/14/20 3:47 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Policy is separate for input and output.
>
> Input policy can be "accept" (accept silently), or "reject" (reject
> the request with an error).
>
> Output policy can be "accept" (pass on unchanged), or "hide" (filter
> out the deprecated parts).
>
> Default is "accept".  Policies other than "accept" are implemented
> later in this series.
>
> For now, -compat covers only syntactic aspects of QMP, i.e. stuff
> tagged with feature 'deprecated'.  We may want to extend it to cover
> semantic aspects, CLI, and experimental features.
>
> The option is experimental.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

But as Peter points out, where is the introspection for whether this 
command line argument exists?

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