From d12b64eaebd9f0df03c70422336c669a44ed2937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:48:03 +0200 Subject: vl: deprecate -watchdog -watchdog is the same as -device except that it is case insensitive (and it allows only watchdog devices of course). Now that "-device help" can list as such the available watchdog devices, we can deprecate it. Note that even though -watchdog tries to be case insensitive, it fails at that: "-watchdog i6300xyz" fails with "Unknown -watchdog device", but "-watchdog i6300ESB" also fails (when the generated -device option is processed) with an error "'i6300ESB' is not a valid device model name". For this reason, the documentation update does not mention the case insensitivity of -watchdog. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- softmmu/vl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'softmmu') diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c index af0c4cbd99..570120f5c4 100644 --- a/softmmu/vl.c +++ b/softmmu/vl.c @@ -3256,6 +3256,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) error_report("only one watchdog option may be given"); exit(1); } + warn_report("-watchdog is deprecated; use -device instead."); watchdog = optarg; break; case QEMU_OPTION_action: -- cgit v1.2.3