aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/qemu-deprecated.texi
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2019-10-09 18:43:03 -0400
committerJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2019-10-31 05:28:11 -0400
commit7d60133fcae81b1c829d30ceca4f16eaa26c4d36 (patch)
tree7f2802c9fa248d16d1886ea8b035e765941a87f0 /qemu-deprecated.texi
parent68d8ef4ec540682c3538d4963e836e43a211dd17 (diff)
IDE: deprecate ide-drive
It's an old compatibility shim that just delegates to ide-cd or ide-hd. I'd like to refactor these some day, and getting rid of the super-object will make that easier. Either way, we don't need this. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Message-id: 20191009224303.10232-2-jsnow@redhat.com Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-deprecated.texi')
-rw-r--r--qemu-deprecated.texi5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index f727bd3932..296bfc93a3 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -254,6 +254,11 @@ quite a bit. It will be removed without replacement unless some users speaks
up at the @email{qemu-devel@@nongnu.org} mailing list with information about
their usecases.
+@subsection ide-drive (since 4.2)
+
+The 'ide-drive' device is deprecated. Users should use 'ide-hd' or
+'ide-cd' as appropriate to get an IDE hard disk or CD-ROM as needed.
+
@section System emulator machines
@subsection pc-0.12, pc-0.13, pc-0.14 and pc-0.15 (since 4.0)