Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Drop AIX host support

[Thomas Huth]

On 05.09.2017 10:04, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 08:09:17PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 04.09.2017 19:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> Nobody has mentioned AIX host support on the mailing list for years,
>>> and we have no test systems for it so it is most likely broken.
>>> We've advertised in configure for two releases now that we plan
>>> to drop support for this host OS, and have had no complaints.
>>
>> We just added this some weeks ago to our qemu-doc.texi:
>>
>> "Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how long
>> features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor any documented
>> list of which features were deprecated. Thus any features deprecated
>> prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if they were first deprecated in the
>> 2.10.0 release."
>>
>> Should we maybe wait two more releases (for version 3.0 ;-)) 'till we
>> remove it?
> 
> The deprecation policy is for features which currently work and which we
> expect to have actual users. Neither is the case with AIX support, so I
> don't see any reason to keep it longer.

OK, then let's remove the dead AIX code in 2.11 already!

 Thomas