From 34deee7b6a1418f3d62a91ff0a9d156e60a788a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:47:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate C virtiofsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people do new work on that. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Message-id: 20220210174714.19843-1-dgilbert@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 25b1fb86778..26d00812ba9 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -447,3 +447,20 @@ nanoMIPS ISA The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain. As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated. + +Tools +----- + +virtiofsd +''''''''' + +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``; +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree. +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that +are already in development for the moment, but will eventually +be deleted from this tree. +New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems +should consider moving to it. The command line and feature set +is very close and moving should be simple. -- 2.39.5