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

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&gt; --- 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.