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authorPaolo Bonzini2021-02-25 11:55:27 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini2021-02-25 15:41:50 +0100
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tree7890a6fb132ab295a75429872d3830ba0e9639fb
parenttarget/i386: Add bus lock debug exception support (diff)
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vl: deprecate -writeconfig
The functionality of -writeconfig is limited and the code does not even try to detect cases where it prints incorrect syntax (for example if values have a quote in them, since qemu_config_parse does not support any kind of escaping) so remove it. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--docs/system/deprecated.rst7
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx7
-rw-r--r--softmmu/vl.c1
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index 2fcac7861e..561c916da2 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ library enabled as a cryptography provider.
Neither the ``nettle`` library, or the built-in cryptography provider are
supported on FIPS enabled hosts.
+``-writeconfig`` (since 6.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``-writeconfig`` option is not able to serialize the entire contents
+of the QEMU command line. It is thus considered a failed experiment
+and deprecated, with no current replacement.
+
QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
------------------------------------
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 34be5a7a2d..252db9357c 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4335,13 +4335,8 @@ SRST
ERST
DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig,
"-writeconfig <file>\n"
- " read/write config file\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+ " read/write config file (deprecated)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
SRST
-``-writeconfig file``
- Write device configuration to file. The file can be either filename
- to save command line and device configuration into file or dash
- ``-``) character to print the output to stdout. This can be later
- used as input file for ``-readconfig`` option.
ERST
DEF("no-user-config", 0, QEMU_OPTION_nouserconfig,
diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index b219ce1f35..10bd8a10a3 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -3356,6 +3356,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
case QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig:
{
FILE *fp;
+ warn_report("-writeconfig is deprecated and will go away without a replacement");
if (strcmp(optarg, "-") == 0) {
fp = stdout;
} else {