Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] IDE: deprecate ide-drive

[Peter Krempa]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 16:31:50 -0400, John Snow wrote:
> It's an old compatibility shim that just delegates to ide-cd or ide-hd.
> I'd like to refactor these some day, and getting rid of the super-object
> will make that easier.
> 
> Either way, we don't need this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-deprecated.texi          | 5 +++++
>  hw/ide/qdev.c                 | 3 +++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/051.pc.out | 6 ++++--
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index 01245e0b1c4..f802d83983e 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ quite a bit. It will be removed without replacement 
> unless some users speaks
>  up at the @email{qemu-devel@@nongnu.org} mailing list with information about
>  their usecases.
>  
> +@subsection ide-drive (since 4.2)
> +
> +The 'ide-drive' device is deprecated. Users should use 'ide-hd' or
> +'ide-cd' as appropriate to get an IDE hard disk or CDROM as needed.

In libvirt we don't use ide-drive any more for command line use since
libvirt-commit 'a4cda054e7' [0]

There is a capability named 'ide-drive.wwn', but this one is actually
probed from ide-hd along with other IDE-related capabilities since
libvirt-commit 'e67b6dcf361' [1].

There is also one test file that mentions ide-drive but that is actually
not referenced from any test code so I'll just delete it.

This means that libvirt is prepared for this deprecation so I guess you
can add a vanity-by:

Libvirt-checked-by: Peter Krempa <address@hidden>

[0] https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=a4cda054e7
[1] https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=e67b6dcf361