From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5WO0-0001xW-S6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 07:54:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5WNx-0007L7-RW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 07:54:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53156) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d5WNx-0007Kk-Kz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2017 07:54:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A2067B8BC for ; Tue, 2 May 2017 11:54:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Thomas Huth Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 13:54:22 +0200 Message-Id: <1493726062-31743-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Mark legacy option '-no-kvm' as deprecated List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paolo Bonzini '-no-kvm' was just a legacy convenience option for the users of qemu-kvm, it never made sense in the normal QEMU tree since TCG is the default here anyway. The option has also never been specified in the QEMU docs and in the '--help' list, so likely hardly anybody knows about this option at all. I think we could get rid of this without bothering anybody nowadays, but just in case, let's print out a warning for a couple of releases first. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- vl.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index d5ec87e..2d44621 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -3709,7 +3709,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) exit(1); } break; - case QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm: + case QEMU_OPTION_no_kvm: + error_report("'-no-kvm' is depreacted, please use " + "'-accel tcg' instead"); olist = qemu_find_opts("machine"); qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "accel=tcg", false); break; -- 1.8.3.1