Re: [Qemu-devel] Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff

2018-10-29 Thread John Snow
On 10/26/2018 10:22 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> This is from my (imperfect) notes, corrections welcome. >> >> Motivation: QEMU contains stuff of dubious value, which gets in the way >> in various (sometimes painful and

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff

2018-10-29 Thread Christophe de Dinechin
> On 26 Oct 2018, at 16:03, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > This is from my (imperfect) notes, corrections welcome. > > Motivation: QEMU contains stuff of dubious value, which gets in the way > in various (sometimes painful and expensive) ways. > > Deprecation is the marking of an external

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff

2018-10-28 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 October 2018 at 05:43, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Daniel P. Berrangé writes: >> Something I meant to bring up but forgot is about the classification >> of devices, especially with a view towards security. It is not directly >> about deprecation, but it is somewhat related as it is related

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff

2018-10-27 Thread Markus Armbruster
Daniel P. Berrangé writes: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> This is from my (imperfect) notes, corrections welcome. >> >> Motivation: QEMU contains stuff of dubious value, which gets in the way >> in various (sometimes painful and expensive) ways. >> >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff

2018-10-26 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > This is from my (imperfect) notes, corrections welcome. > > Motivation: QEMU contains stuff of dubious value, which gets in the way > in various (sometimes painful and expensive) ways. > > Deprecation is the marking of an

[Qemu-devel] Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff

2018-10-26 Thread Markus Armbruster
This is from my (imperfect) notes, corrections welcome. Motivation: QEMU contains stuff of dubious value, which gets in the way in various (sometimes painful and expensive) ways. Deprecation is the marking of an external interface as "we intend to remove this, you should stop using it"