Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > This subsystem is said to be in a bad shape (see e.g. [1], [2] > and [3]), and nobody seems to feel responsible to pick up patches > for this and send them via a pull request. For example there is > a patch for a CVE-worthy bug posted more than half a year ago [4] > which has never been merged. > > Quoting Markus: "Given the shape it is in, I wouldn't let friends > use it in production" - we shouldn't expose this to our users in > the current state. Thus let's mark it as deprecated and finally > remove it unless somebody steps up and improves the code quality > and adds proper regression tests. > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230918144206.560120-1-arm...@redhat.com/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/zqnojjoqofu73...@redhat.com/ > [3] > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1054981c-e8ae-c676-3b04-eeb030e11...@tls.msk.ru/ > [4] > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230301142926.18686-1-yuval.shaia...@gmail.com/ > [5] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/8734z9f086....@pond.sub.org/ > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>
