Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb: Deprecate the legacy -usbdevice option

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 19/05/2017 08:35, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The '-usbdevice' option is considered as deprecated nowadays and
> we might want to remove these options in a future version of QEMU.
> So mark this options as deprecated in the documenation and print out
> a warning if it is used to tell the user what to use instead.
> While we're at it, improve also some other minor USB-related spots
> in qemu-options.hx that were not up to date anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-options.hx | 9 +++++----
>  vl.c            | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index fd31428..f688123 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -983,12 +983,12 @@ STEXI
>  ETEXI
>  
>  DEF("usb", 0, QEMU_OPTION_usb,
> -    "-usb            enable the USB driver (will be the default soon)\n",
> +    "-usb            enable the USB driver (if it is not used by default 
> yet)\n",
>      QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
>  STEXI
>  @item -usb
>  @findex -usb
> -Enable the USB driver (will be the default soon)
> +Enable the USB driver (if it is not used by default yet).
>  ETEXI
>  
>  DEF("usbdevice", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_usbdevice,
> @@ -998,7 +998,8 @@ STEXI
>  
>  @item -usbdevice @var{devname}
>  @findex -usbdevice
> -Add the USB device @var{devname}. @xref{usb_devices}.
> +Add the USB device @var{devname}. Note that this option is deprecated,
> +please use @code{-device usb-...} instead. @xref{usb_devices}.
>  
>  @table @option
>  
> @@ -1376,7 +1377,7 @@ output such as guest graphics, guest console, and the 
> QEMU monitor in a
>  window. With this option, you can have QEMU listen on VNC display
>  @var{display} and redirect the VGA display over the VNC session. It is
>  very useful to enable the usb tablet device when using this option
> -(option @option{-usbdevice tablet}). When using the VNC display, you
> +(option @option{-device usb-tablet}). When using the VNC display, you
>  must use the @option{-k} parameter to set the keyboard layout if you are
>  not using en-us. Valid syntax for the @var{display} is
>  
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index abecaf8..3ca6bd3 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -3748,6 +3748,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>                  qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "usb=on", false);
>                  break;
>              case QEMU_OPTION_usbdevice:
> +                error_report("'-usbdevice' is deprecated, please use "
> +                             "'-device usb-...' instead");
>                  olist = qemu_find_opts("machine");
>                  qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "usb=on", false);
>                  add_device_config(DEV_USB, optarg);
> 

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>