Re: -drive if=none: can't we make this the default?

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Can't we make -drive if=none the default?
>
> Yes, I know current default is ide, and whole world have to use if=none 
> explicitly
> to undo this.  I think at this point we can deprecate if=ide default and 
> switch to
> if=none in the next release.  I think it will be a welcome change.

I don't think that would be welcome by all people now using -drive 
media=disk,format-raw,file= shortcut (which they were forced to use 
instead of the previous -hda shortcut just to specify format=raw) and now 
they would need to change that to -drive lot,of,options,here -device 
ide-hd,drive=[what was it called and which drive is that?] instead. That's 
a lot more typing and much less convenient so please keep the convenience 
option at least somewhat convenient for command line users.

Also machine class has a member (possibly) set by board code: 
mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE; Isn't that the default used if no "if" 
property given?

Maybe I don't understand how this works but if it makes less convenient 
for users and breaks their scripts then I don't think it's a good idea.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan