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 <jsnow(a)redhat.com>
---
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@(a)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 <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
[0]
https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=a4cda054e7
[1]
https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=e67b6dcf361