On Mon, Jul 18 2022, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 11:37:35AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: >> Is it easy enough the figure out the deprecation note? I think you >> either have to actually start something with the deprecated entity, or >> use qmp (which is not that straightforward)? > > QMP doesn't tell you the note, just a boolean deprecation flag. It is > only printed on startup only right now. > > In the context of libvirt what happens is that libvirt can report that > something is deprecated (based on the QMP response). If you go ahead > and use it anyway, you'll get the deprecation message in the logfile > for the VM, and the VM gets marked tainted by libvirt, which serves > as a guide to look in the logfile. Hm... so, a user who notes via -help that 'foo' is deprecated does not really have a good way to figure out what they should use instead, other than actually trying to use 'foo'? Is that a use case worth spending some effort on, or do we consider it more of a niche case?
