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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2024-10-02 10:20:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2024-10-07 10:54:10 +0200 |
| commit | b873463821343c6f702c4195f2168790b09cf44e (patch) | |
| tree | 1764845e3b699045e3d4364d66108acd7785480c | |
| parent | b5ab62b3c0050612c7f9b0b4baeb44ebab42775a (diff) | |
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docs: Mark "gluster" support in QEMU as deprecated
According to https://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=171934833215726
the GlusterFS development effectively ended. Thus mark it as deprecated
in QEMU, so we can remove it in a future release if the project does
not gain momentum again.
Acked-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20241002082033.129022-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | block/gluster.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qapi/block-core.json | 8 |
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/gluster.c b/block/gluster.c index f8b415f..f03d052 100644 --- a/block/gluster.c +++ b/block/gluster.c @@ -809,6 +809,8 @@ static int qemu_gluster_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, goto out; } + warn_report_once("'gluster' is deprecated"); + filename = qemu_opt_get(opts, GLUSTER_OPT_FILENAME); s->debug = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, GLUSTER_OPT_DEBUG, diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 48b230b..c02bbb6 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -377,6 +377,15 @@ Specifying the iSCSI password in plain text on the command line using the used instead, to refer to a ``--object secret...`` instance that provides a password via a file, or encrypted. +``gluster`` backend (since 9.2) +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +According to https://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=171934833215726 +the GlusterFS development effectively ended. Unless the development +gains momentum again, the QEMU project will remove the gluster backend +in a future release. + + Character device options '''''''''''''''''''''''' diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json index 5c2b3ac..2feae8e 100644 --- a/qapi/block-core.json +++ b/qapi/block-core.json @@ -3190,12 +3190,18 @@ # # @snapshot-access: Since 7.0 # +# Features: +# +# @deprecated: Member @gluster is deprecated because GlusterFS +# development ceased. +# # Since: 2.9 ## { 'enum': 'BlockdevDriver', 'data': [ 'blkdebug', 'blklogwrites', 'blkreplay', 'blkverify', 'bochs', 'cloop', 'compress', 'copy-before-write', 'copy-on-read', 'dmg', - 'file', 'snapshot-access', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'gluster', + 'file', 'snapshot-access', 'ftp', 'ftps', + {'name': 'gluster', 'features': [ 'deprecated' ] }, {'name': 'host_cdrom', 'if': 'HAVE_HOST_BLOCK_DEVICE' }, {'name': 'host_device', 'if': 'HAVE_HOST_BLOCK_DEVICE' }, 'http', 'https', |