Re: [PATCH v3 11/19] audio: deprecate -soundhw pcspk

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 6/22/20 2:59 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 22/06/2020 13.29, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Add deprecation message to the audio init function.
>>
>> Factor out audio initialization and call that from
>> both audio init and realize, so setting audiodev via
>> -global is enough to properly initialize pcspk.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  hw/audio/pcspk.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> [...]
>> +static int pcspk_audio_init_soundhw(ISABus *bus)
>> +{
>> +    PCSpkState *s = pcspk_state;
>> +
>> +    warn_report("'-soundhw pcspk' is deprecated, "
>> +                "please set a backend using '-global isa-pcspk.audiodev=<name>' instead");

Markus's "Crazy shit around -global (pardon my french)"
series instead suggest to use '-device ...':
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-06/msg06667.html
Could that work here?

>> +    return pcspk_audio_init(s);
>> +}
> 
> While "-soundhw pcspk" is quite easy to use for the average user, I
> think the "-global" options will be quite hard to figure out, especially
> once this deprecation message got removed again when -soundhw has been
> deleted. Could you maybe add a description how to configure the
> pc-speaker to docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc, too?
> 
>  Thanks,
>   Thomas
> 
>