Commit 45401299 authored by Thomas Huth's avatar Thomas Huth Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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qemu-options: Mark -virtioconsole as deprecated 



The qemu-doc already states that this option is only maintained for
backward compatibility and "-device virtconsole" should be used
instead. So let's take the next step and mark this option officially
as deprecated.

Reviewed-by: default avatarMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1525446790-16139-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent bf3175b4

qemu-doc.texi

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@@ -2931,6 +2931,11 @@ The @code{-localtime} option has been replaced by @code{-rtc base=localtime}. 


The @code{-startdate} option has been replaced by @code{-rtc base=@var{date}}.



@subsection -virtioconsole (since 2.13.0)



Option @option{-virtioconsole} has been replaced by

@option{-device virtconsole}.



@section qemu-img command line arguments



@subsection convert -s (since 2.0.0)

qemu-options.hx

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@@ -3675,10 +3675,7 @@ STEXI 
@item -virtioconsole @var{c}

@findex -virtioconsole

Set virtio console.



This option is maintained for backward compatibility.



Please use @code{-device virtconsole} for the new way of invocation.

This option is deprecated, please use @option{-device virtconsole} instead.

ETEXI



DEF("show-cursor", 0, QEMU_OPTION_show_cursor, \

vl.c

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@@ -3587,6 +3587,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) 
                }

                break;

            case QEMU_OPTION_virtiocon:

                warn_report("This option is deprecated, "

                            "use '-device virtconsole' instead");

                add_device_config(DEV_VIRTCON, optarg);

                default_virtcon = 0;

                if (strncmp(optarg, "mon:", 4) == 0) {