Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-deprecated: Remove -virtioconsole and -no-frame for good

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 2019-02-07 14:52, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 13:15, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The two sections have accidentally been added again during the
>> merge of Paolo's and Gerd's trees.
>>
>> Fixes: 3e29da9fd81002a0c03041aaa26dea6d9dd9bd65
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  qemu-deprecated.texi | 12 ------------
>>  1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
>> index 80b0702..90e5860 100644
>> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
>> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
>> @@ -37,18 +37,6 @@ would automatically enable USB support on the machine type.
>>  If using the new syntax, USB support must be explicitly
>>  enabled via the ``-machine usb=on'' argument.
>>
>> -@subsection -virtioconsole (since 3.0.0)
>> -
>> -Option @option{-virtioconsole} has been replaced by
>> -@option{-device virtconsole}.
>> -
>> -@subsection -no-frame (since 2.12.0)
>> -
>> -The @code{--no-frame} argument works with SDL 1.2 only. The other user
>> -interfaces never implemented this in the first place. So this will be
>> -removed together with SDL 1.2 support.
>> ->>>>>>> remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream
>> -
>>  @subsection -clock (since 3.0.0)
>>
>>  The @code{-clock} option is ignored since QEMU version 1.7.0. There is no
>> --
> 
> This was a mismerge on my part -- particularly egregious since
> I left the >>>>> conflict marker in...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> 
> PS: do we have a document where we list the options that have
> entirely gone away, so that when a user of QEMU 4.1 tries
> "-virtioconsole" and it doesn't work they know what the replacement is ?

No, we only put it into the ChangeLog so far, so people who search for
the options should be able to find them.
Most of the deprecated options like -virtioconsole are also rather
hardly used, so I don't think it's worth the effort to maintain a
separate document for this.

 Thomas