Re: Let's remove some deprecated stuff

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/04/21 11:59, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann:
>
>      Creating sound card devices using ``-soundhw`` (since 5.1)
>      ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>
>      Sound card devices should be created using ``-device`` instead.  The
>      names are the same for most devices.  The exceptions are ``hda`` which
>      needs two devices (``-device intel-hda -device hda-duplex``) and
>      ``pcspk`` which can be activated using ``-machine
>      pcspk-audiodev=<name>``.

For this to go away, I'd rather have something like the -nic option that 
provides an easy way to set up the front end and back end.

In other words you would do something like -audiohw 
<audiodev-args>,model=xxx and it gets desugared automatically to either

   -audiodev <audiodev-args>,id=foo -device devname,audiodev=xxx

or

   -audiodev <audiodev-args>,id=foo -M propname=foo

Paolo