Re: [PATCH 2/2] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/11/20 17:49, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Deprecate all this, except for -chardev and -spice where it is in
> > wide use.
> I consider this a misuse of deprecation, to be frank.  If something is
> known to be unused, we just remove it.  Deprecation is precisely for
> things that are used.  I'm with Daniel here: let's deprecate this sugar
> everywhere.
>
> Wide use may justify extending the deprecation grace period.

Fair enough.  However now that I think of it I'd have to remove the 
coverage of the "feature" in tests, because they'd warn.

Paolo