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authorMarkus Armbruster2020-03-17 12:54:50 +0100
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qapi: New special feature flag "deprecated"
Unlike regular feature flags, the new special feature flag "deprecated" is recognized by the QAPI generator. For now, it's only permitted with commands, events, and struct members. It will be put to use shortly. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-26-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> [Doc typo fixed]
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@@ -683,6 +683,12 @@ Intended use is to have each feature string signal that this build of
QEMU shows a certain behaviour.
+==== Special features ====
+
+Feature "deprecated" marks a command, event, or struct member as
+deprecated. It is not supported elsewhere so far.
+
+
=== Naming rules and reserved names ===
All names must begin with a letter, and contain only ASCII letters,