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

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 January 2018 at 12:27, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> The option has been marked as deprecated since QEMU 2.10, and so far
> nobody complained that it is urgently required anymore. So let's now
> get rid of this legacy pile, to simplify the usb code quite a bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

The diffstat is nice, but can we retain the "please use
$NEWOPTION instead of $OLDOPTION" message for a bit?
I'm pretty sure there will be users out there who've
been happily ignoring deprecation notices, and I think
we'll reduce the amount of support traffic if they
get a new QEMU with a specific error message telling them
what they need to fix, rather than one which just prints
a generic "unknown option" message.

thanks
-- PMM