Re: [PULL 00/13] misc patches removing deprecated features

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 16:55, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 6e31b3a5c34c6e5be7ef60773e607f189eaa15f3:
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>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/jasowang/tags/net-pull-request' into staging (2021-03-16 10:53:47 +0000)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
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>   https://gitlab.com/berrange/qemu tags/dep-many-pull-request
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 13bf1a48d1671e26ca2fa13817d388fbdc4215ff:
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>   block: remove support for using "file" driver with block/char devices (2021-03-16 16:33:52 +0000)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Remove many old deprecated features
>
> The following features have been deprecated for well over the 2
> release cycle we promise
>
>   ``-drive file=json:{...{'driver':'file'}}`` (since 3.0)
>   ``-vnc acl`` (since 4.0.0)
>   ``-mon ...,control=readline,pretty=on|off`` (since 4.1)
>   ``migrate_set_downtime`` and ``migrate_set_speed`` (since 2.8.0)
>   ``query-named-block-nodes`` result ``encryption_key_missing`` (since 2.10.0)
>   ``query-block`` result ``inserted.encryption_key_missing`` (since 2.10.0)
>   ``migrate-set-cache-size`` and ``query-migrate-cache-size`` (since 2.11.0)
>   ``query-named-block-nodes`` and ``query-block`` result dirty-bitmaps[i].status (since 4.0)
>   ``query-cpus`` (since 2.12.0)
>   ``query-cpus-fast`` ``arch`` output member (since 3.0.0)
>   ``query-events`` (since 4.0)
>   chardev client socket with ``wait`` option (since 4.0)
>   ``acl_show``, ``acl_reset``, ``acl_policy``, ``acl_add``, ``acl_remove`` (since 4.0.0)
>   ``ide-drive`` (since 4.2)
>   ``scsi-disk`` (since 4.2)

Merge conflicts in the docs: could you fix up and resend,
please? They're probably easy to fix, but I have a dozen
pullreqs to process right now, so I am not spending any time
on fixing conflicts...

thanks
-- PMM