Re: [PATCH v3 12/19] audio: add soundhw deprecation notice

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 01:29:07PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 3a255591c341..7ddd9e400745 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ should specify an ``audiodev=`` property.  Additionally, when using
>  vnc, you should specify an ``audiodev=`` propery if you plan to
>  transmit audio through the VNC protocol.
>  
> +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 ``-global
> +pcspk.audiodev=<name>``.

The previous  "-soundhw pcspk" didn't include any audiodev specification,
so I presume it activated some kind of default ? What would be the equivalent
audiodev to specify for the new arg to match the old default ?


Regards,
Daniel
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