Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Remove legacy "-mon default=on" parameter

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Thomas Huth (thuth@redhat.com) wrote:
> The "default" parameter of the "-mon" option is useless since
> QEMU v2.4.0, and marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.8.0. That
> should have been long enough to let people update their scripts,
> so time to remove it now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Seems reasonable.


Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

> ---
>  monitor.c     | 3 ---
>  qemu-doc.texi | 9 ---------
>  vl.c          | 4 ----
>  3 files changed, 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index e36fb53..e53c6e1 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -4141,9 +4141,6 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_mon_opts = {
>              .name = "chardev",
>              .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
>          },{
> -            .name = "default",  /* deprecated */
> -            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
> -        },{
>              .name = "pretty",
>              .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
>          },
> diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
> index d9861b3..6913b32 100644
> --- a/qemu-doc.texi
> +++ b/qemu-doc.texi
> @@ -2401,15 +2401,6 @@ setting ``-machine kernel_irqchip=off''.
>  The ``-no-kvm'' argument is now a synonym for setting
>  ``-machine accel=tcg''.
>  
> -@subsection -mon default=on (since 2.4.0)
> -
> -The ``default'' option to the ``-mon'' argument is
> -now ignored. When multiple monitors were enabled, it
> -indicated which monitor would receive log messages
> -from the various subsystems. This feature is no longer
> -required as messages are now only sent to the monitor
> -in response to explicitly monitor commands.
> -
>  @subsection -vnc tls (since 2.5.0)
>  
>  The ``-vnc tls'' argument is now a synonym for setting
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 2644400..4e7a7e4 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -2438,10 +2438,6 @@ static int mon_init_func(void *opaque, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
>      if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "pretty", 0))
>          flags |= MONITOR_USE_PRETTY;
>  
> -    if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "default", 0)) {
> -        error_report("option 'default' does nothing and is deprecated");
> -    }
> -
>      chardev = qemu_opt_get(opts, "chardev");
>      chr = qemu_chr_find(chardev);
>      if (chr == NULL) {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK