Re: [PULL 1/9] IDE: deprecate ide-drive

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 31/10/19 11:58, 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.

Good idea.  I will prepare a similar patch for scsi-disk, even though
technically we're already in soft freeze; it makes no sense to deprecate
only one of the two.

Paolo

> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <address@hidden>
> Message-id: address@hidden
> 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 f727bd3932..296bfc93a3 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -254,6 +254,11 @@ 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 CD-ROM as needed.
> +
>  @section System emulator machines
>  
>  @subsection pc-0.12, pc-0.13, pc-0.14 and pc-0.15 (since 4.0)
> diff --git a/hw/ide/qdev.c b/hw/ide/qdev.c
> index 6fba6b62b8..3666e59721 100644
> --- a/hw/ide/qdev.c
> +++ b/hw/ide/qdev.c
> @@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ static void ide_drive_realize(IDEDevice *dev, Error 
> **errp)
>  {
>      DriveInfo *dinfo = NULL;
>  
> +    warn_report("'ide-drive' is deprecated, "
> +                "please use 'ide-hd' or 'ide-cd' instead");
> +
>      if (dev->conf.blk) {
>          dinfo = blk_legacy_dinfo(dev->conf.blk);
>      }
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/051.pc.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/051.pc.out
> index 000557c7c8..34849dd172 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/051.pc.out
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/051.pc.out
> @@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ QEMU X.Y.Z monitor - type 'help' for more information
>  
>  Testing: -drive if=none,id=disk -device ide-drive,drive=disk
>  QEMU X.Y.Z monitor - type 'help' for more information
> -(qemu) QEMU_PROG: -device ide-drive,drive=disk: Device needs media, but 
> drive is empty
> +(qemu) QEMU_PROG: -device ide-drive,drive=disk: warning: 'ide-drive' is 
> deprecated, please use 'ide-hd' or 'ide-cd' instead
> +QEMU_PROG: -device ide-drive,drive=disk: Device needs media, but drive is 
> empty
>  
>  Testing: -drive if=none,id=disk -device ide-hd,drive=disk
>  QEMU X.Y.Z monitor - type 'help' for more information
> @@ -228,7 +229,8 @@ QEMU X.Y.Z monitor - type 'help' for more information
>  
>  Testing: -drive file=TEST_DIR/t.qcow2,if=none,id=disk,readonly=on -device 
> ide-drive,drive=disk
>  QEMU X.Y.Z monitor - type 'help' for more information
> -(qemu) QEMU_PROG: -device ide-drive,drive=disk: Block node is read-only
> +(qemu) QEMU_PROG: -device ide-drive,drive=disk: warning: 'ide-drive' is 
> deprecated, please use 'ide-hd' or 'ide-cd' instead
> +QEMU_PROG: -device ide-drive,drive=disk: Block node is read-only
>  
>  Testing: -drive file=TEST_DIR/t.qcow2,if=none,id=disk,readonly=on -device 
> ide-hd,drive=disk
>  QEMU X.Y.Z monitor - type 'help' for more information
>