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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2018-05-04 17:13:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2018-05-09 00:13:39 +0200 |
| commit | 454012997e0818e371750893c87c28c155ef14e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6abcc4247508cc98146af6795fd2995fdd4b6e35 | |
| parent | bf3175b49952628f96d72d1247d8bb3aa5c2466c (diff) | |
qemu-options: Mark -virtioconsole as deprecated
The qemu-doc already states that this option is only maintained for
backward compatibility and "-device virtconsole" should be used
instead. So let's take the next step and mark this option officially
as deprecated.
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525446790-16139-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-doc.texi | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vl.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 0ed0f19e6b..4add403bf1 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -2931,6 +2931,11 @@ The @code{-localtime} option has been replaced by @code{-rtc base=localtime}. The @code{-startdate} option has been replaced by @code{-rtc base=@var{date}}. +@subsection -virtioconsole (since 2.13.0) + +Option @option{-virtioconsole} has been replaced by +@option{-device virtconsole}. + @section qemu-img command line arguments @subsection convert -s (since 2.0.0) diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index c611766390..091ded6e0c 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -3675,10 +3675,7 @@ STEXI @item -virtioconsole @var{c} @findex -virtioconsole Set virtio console. - -This option is maintained for backward compatibility. - -Please use @code{-device virtconsole} for the new way of invocation. +This option is deprecated, please use @option{-device virtconsole} instead. ETEXI DEF("show-cursor", 0, QEMU_OPTION_show_cursor, \ @@ -3587,6 +3587,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) } break; case QEMU_OPTION_virtiocon: + warn_report("This option is deprecated, " + "use '-device virtconsole' instead"); add_device_config(DEV_VIRTCON, optarg); default_virtcon = 0; if (strncmp(optarg, "mon:", 4) == 0) { |