Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Issue a deprecation warning if the user specifies the "-hdachs" option.

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 26.04.2017 15:44, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/04/2017 10:08, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> If the user needs to specify the disk geometry, the corresponding
>> parameters of the "-drive" option should be used instead. "-hdachs"
>> is considered as deprecated and might be removed soon.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  vl.c | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
>> index 0b4ed52..0980213 100644
>> --- a/vl.c
>> +++ b/vl.c
>> @@ -3230,6 +3230,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>>                          }
>>                      }
>>                  }
>> +                error_report("'-hdachs' is deprecated. Please use '-drive"
>> +                             " ...,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,trans=t' instead.");
>>                  break;
>>              case QEMU_OPTION_numa:
>>                  opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("numa"),
>>
> 
> Not even this, which should also be deprecated; please suggest using
> "-device ide-hd" instead.

D'oh, you're right, of course ... I'll send a v3 ...

 Thomas