On 02.05.2017 18:08, Paolo Bonzini wrote: [...] >>> So the first lesson should be "no deprecation >>> without documentation" (any reference to 18th century political slogans >>> is purely coincidential :)). >> Would you accept my patch if I'd remove the hunks for vl.c, i.e. a patch >> that just updates the documentation? > > No, updating the documentation is pointless if you don't improve it at > the same time. > > I don't like writing it so often, especially to someone who is a > relatively experienced contributor, but the common word in all these > reviews is "pointless". What is the *purpose* of this work?
Marking the -enable-xxx options in the documentation as deprecated would maybe at least prevent that we end up with more -enable-mynewcoolaccelerator options in the future, like we did with -enable-hax now. But ok, I got the message, and I'll shut up here now. Sorry for wasting your time. Thomas
