char: Deprecate backend aliases 'tty' and 'parport'

QAPI doesn't know the aliases 'tty' and 'parport' and there is no
reason to prefer them to the real names of the backends 'serial' and
'parallel'.

Since warnings are not allowed in 'make check' output, we can't test
the deprecated alias any more. Remove it from test-char.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210311164253.338723-3-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
index dd925cf9a4..7be9579dd8 100644
--- a/chardev/char.c
+++ b/chardev/char.c
@@ -534,9 +534,10 @@ static const ChardevClass *char_get_class(const char *driver, Error **errp)
     return cc;
 }
 
-static const struct ChardevAlias {
+static struct ChardevAlias {
     const char *typename;
     const char *alias;
+    bool deprecation_warning_printed;
 } chardev_alias_table[] = {
 #ifdef HAVE_CHARDEV_PARPORT
     { "parallel", "parport" },
@@ -584,6 +585,10 @@ help_string_append(const char *name, bool is_cli_alias, void *opaque)
 {
     GString *str = opaque;
 
+    if (is_cli_alias) {
+        return;
+    }
+
     g_string_append_printf(str, "\n  %s", name);
 }
 
@@ -592,6 +597,11 @@ static const char *chardev_alias_translate(const char *name)
     int i;
     for (i = 0; i < (int)ARRAY_SIZE(chardev_alias_table); i++) {
         if (g_strcmp0(chardev_alias_table[i].alias, name) == 0) {
+            if (!chardev_alias_table[i].deprecation_warning_printed) {
+                warn_report("The alias '%s' is deprecated, use '%s' instead",
+                            name, chardev_alias_table[i].typename);
+                chardev_alias_table[i].deprecation_warning_printed = true;
+            }
             return chardev_alias_table[i].typename;
         }
     }