Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: Special case tap/aio for disk validation

[Kamala Narasimhan <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> Shall we pre-deprecate the someprefix: along with all the
>> tap:{aio,ioemu,FOO}: stuff while we are at this? IOW the syntax we want
>> to actually support going forward would be:
>>      (raw|vhd|qcow2|qcow):/path/to/something
>> with the toolstack being at liberty to best decide how to achieve the
>> necessary format support? (optionally raw: as the default). All the rest
>> of the format is really semantically meaningless and supported only for
>> compatibility with existing configuration files.
> 
> Yes.
> 

That brings the question on what we do to make it obvious to the user that we 
are deprecating these options.  That is other than explicitly mentioning it in 
the documentation.  Do we display a warning in our validation code?

Kamala


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