Re: [patch 5/6] Emulate qemu-kvms drive parameter boot=on|off

Anthony Liguori
2012-10-03T14:43:20Z

Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> writes:

> Commit 841280b6c224ea2c6edc2f5afc2add513c85181d from qemu-kvm.git.
>
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>
> We do not want to maintain this option forever. It will be removed after
> a grace period of a few releases. So warn the user that this option has
> no effect and will become invalid soon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Index: qemu-compat-kvm/blockdev.c
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu-compat-kvm.orig/blockdev.c
> +++ qemu-compat-kvm/blockdev.c
> @@ -432,6 +432,12 @@ DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, in
> return NULL;
> }
>
> + if (qemu_opt_get(opts, "boot") != NULL) {
> + fprintf(stderr, "qemu-kvm: boot=on|off is deprecated and will be "
> + "ignored. Future versions will reject this parameter. Please "
> + "update your scripts.\n");
> + }
> +
> on_write_error = BLOCK_ERR_STOP_ENOSPC;
> if ((buf = qemu_opt_get(opts, "werror")) != NULL) {
> if (type != IF_IDE && type != IF_SCSI && type != IF_VIRTIO && type != IF_NONE) {
> Index: qemu-compat-kvm/qemu-config.c
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu-compat-kvm.orig/qemu-config.c
> +++ qemu-compat-kvm/qemu-config.c
> @@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ static QemuOptsList qemu_drive_opts = {
> .name = "copy-on-read",
> .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
> .help = "copy read data from backing file into image file",
> + },{
> + .name = "boot",
> + .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
> + .help = "(deprecated, ignored)",
> },
> { /* end of list */ }
> },
>
>
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