On 07/06/2018 09:50, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> There's no real need to kill off '?', unless it gets in the way of >> steering people towards 'help'. We should steer them toward 'help', >> because '?' is a trap for insufficiently sophisticated users of >> shell[*]. > ... and I agree with your points here. > > => I think we need a second list of deprecated feature (maybe we should > call them "legacy features" instead of "deprecated"?), i.e. a list of > features which we don't recommend for new code / scripts anymore, but > which we do not intend to remove via our official deprecation policy any > time soon. Things like "--enable-kvm" / "-no-kvm" or maybe even "-net" > go into the same category.
Yes, "-net" definitely goes there. > If you agree, I can try to come up with a patch (should the list go into > qemu-doc.texi or a separate document in the the documentation folder?). I think it should go in docs/devel. Paolo