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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-02-25 11:55:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2021-02-25 15:41:50 +0100 |
| commit | b979c93121d4276c124dccbff2848b7aede66cb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 7890a6fb132ab295a75429872d3830ba0e9639fb | |
| parent | 06e878b413766778a53be3d25c0373a23679d039 (diff) | |
vl: deprecate -writeconfig
The functionality of -writeconfig is limited and the code
does not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect
syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since
qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping)
so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/deprecated.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | softmmu/vl.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index 2fcac7861e..561c916da2 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ library enabled as a cryptography provider. Neither the ``nettle`` library, or the built-in cryptography provider are supported on FIPS enabled hosts. +``-writeconfig`` (since 6.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``-writeconfig`` option is not able to serialize the entire contents +of the QEMU command line. It is thus considered a failed experiment +and deprecated, with no current replacement. + QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands ------------------------------------ diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 34be5a7a2d..252db9357c 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -4335,13 +4335,8 @@ SRST ERST DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig, "-writeconfig <file>\n" - " read/write config file\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) + " read/write config file (deprecated)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) SRST -``-writeconfig file`` - Write device configuration to file. The file can be either filename - to save command line and device configuration into file or dash - ``-``) character to print the output to stdout. This can be later - used as input file for ``-readconfig`` option. ERST DEF("no-user-config", 0, QEMU_OPTION_nouserconfig, diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c index b219ce1f35..10bd8a10a3 100644 --- a/softmmu/vl.c +++ b/softmmu/vl.c @@ -3356,6 +3356,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) case QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig: { FILE *fp; + warn_report("-writeconfig is deprecated and will go away without a replacement"); if (strcmp(optarg, "-") == 0) { fp = stdout; } else { |