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authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2018-05-04 17:13:10 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2018-05-09 00:13:39 +0200
commit454012997e0818e371750893c87c28c155ef14e3 (patch)
tree6abcc4247508cc98146af6795fd2995fdd4b6e35
parentbf3175b49952628f96d72d1247d8bb3aa5c2466c (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.texi5
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx5
-rw-r--r--vl.c2
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@@ -2931,6 +2931,11 @@ The @code{-localtime} option has been replaced by @code{-rtc base=localtime}.
The @code{-startdate} option has been replaced by @code{-rtc base=@var{date}}.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+Option @option{-virtioconsole} has been replaced by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, \
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 12e31d1aa9..b928e3e439 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -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) {