linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] KVM: Mark KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_MEMORY

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Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:56:31 +0100
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Sergio Lopez Pascual <slp@...hat.com>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: Mark KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION and KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS as obsoleted

Other ioctl such as KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR have a (deprecated) next to it
which makes it easier to determine that is deprecated. Do the same for the
ioctls that have been obsoleted.

Suggested-by: Sergio Lopez Pascual <slp@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
---

 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index eee9f857a986..c17bac32d25c 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ the VCPU file descriptor can be mmap-ed, including:
   KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING, see section 8.3.
 
 
-4.6 KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION
+4.6 KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION (obsoleted)
 -------------------------
 
 :Capability: basic
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ see the description of the capability.
 Note that the Xen shared info page, if configured, shall always be assumed
 to be dirty. KVM will not explicitly mark it such.
 
-4.9 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS
+4.9 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS (obsoleted)
 ------------------------
 
 :Capability: basic
-- 
2.38.1