Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net/slirp: Tell the users when they are using deprecated options

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 15.12.2015 09:35, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We don't want to support the legacy -tftp, -bootp, -smb and
> -net channel options forever. So let's start telling the users
> that they will go away in a future version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  net/slirp.c | 3 +++
>  os-posix.c  | 3 +++
>  vl.c        | 6 ++++++
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/slirp.c b/net/slirp.c
> index f505570..65e3766 100644
> --- a/net/slirp.c
> +++ b/net/slirp.c
> @@ -784,6 +784,9 @@ int net_slirp_parse_legacy(QemuOptsList *opts_list, const char *optarg, int *ret
>          return 0;
>      }
>  
> +    error_report("The -net channel option is deprecated and "
> +                 "will be removed in a future version.");
> +
>      /* handle legacy -net channel,port:chr */
>      optarg += strlen("channel,");
>  
> diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
> index e4da406..3f62f7c 100644
> --- a/os-posix.c
> +++ b/os-posix.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>  #include "net/slirp.h"
>  #include "qemu-options.h"
>  #include "qemu/rcu.h"
> +#include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
>  #include <sys/prctl.h>
> @@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ void os_parse_cmd_args(int index, const char *optarg)
>      switch (index) {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SLIRP
>      case QEMU_OPTION_smb:
> +        error_report("The -smb option is deprecated and "
> +                     "will be removed in a future version.");
>          if (net_slirp_smb(optarg) < 0)
>              exit(1);
>          break;
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 4211ff1..fa829c0 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -3314,12 +3314,18 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SLIRP
>              case QEMU_OPTION_tftp:
> +                error_report("The -tftp option is deprecated and "
> +                             "will be removed in a future version.");
>                  legacy_tftp_prefix = optarg;
>                  break;
>              case QEMU_OPTION_bootp:
> +                error_report("The -bootp option is deprecated and "
> +                             "will be removed in a future version.");
>                  legacy_bootp_filename = optarg;
>                  break;
>              case QEMU_OPTION_redir:
> +                error_report("The -redir option is deprecated and "
> +                             "will be removed in a future version.");
>                  if (net_slirp_redir(optarg) < 0)
>                      exit(1);
>                  break;

*ping*

Any comments on these old options? I hope Paolo does not want to keep
them, too, forever ;-)

 Thomas