@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ Use ``-display sdl`` instead.
Use ``-display curses`` instead.
+``-watchdog`` (since 6.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Use ``-device`` instead.
+
``-smp`` ("parameter=0" SMP configurations) (since 6.2)
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
@@ -3216,6 +3216,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
error_report("only one watchdog option may be given");
exit(1);
}
+ warn_report("-watchdog is deprecated; use -device instead.");
watchdog = optarg;
break;
case QEMU_OPTION_action:
-watchdog is the same as -device except that it is case insensitive (and it allows only watchdog devices of course). Now that "-device help" can list as such the available watchdog devices, we can deprecate it. Note that even though -watchdog tries to be case insensitive, it fails at that: "-watchdog i6300xyz" fails with "Unknown -watchdog device", but "-watchdog i6300ESB" also fails (when the generated -device option is processed) with an error "'i6300ESB' is not a valid device model name". For this reason, the documentation update does not mention the case insensitivity of -watchdog. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 5 +++++ softmmu/vl.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)