The synth fsdriver never got used for anything else but the QTest testcase for VirtIO 9P. And even there, QTest directly uses -fsdev synth and -device virtio-9p-{pci|device}.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> --- This should be Cc'd to libvir-l...@redhat.com according to MAINTAINERS, but libvirt doesn't know about -virtfs_synth, so I choose to not spam :) --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 4 ++++ qemu-options.hx | 3 ++- vl.c | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 842e71b11dcc..f0ff065e7dc1 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ backend settings instead of environment variables. To ease migration to the new format, the ``-audiodev-help'' option can be used to convert the current values of the environment variables to ``-audiodev'' options. +@subsection -virtfs_synth (since 4.1) + +The ``-virtfs_synth'' argument is now deprecated with no replacement. + @section QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands @subsection block-dirty-bitmap-add "autoload" parameter (since 2.12.0) diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 51802cbb266a..9c5cc2e6bf70 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -1368,7 +1368,8 @@ DEF("virtfs_synth", 0, QEMU_OPTION_virtfs_synth, STEXI @item -virtfs_synth @findex -virtfs_synth -Create synthetic file system image +Create synthetic file system image. Note that this option is deprecated with +no replacement. ETEXI DEF("iscsi", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_iscsi, diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index d9fea0a11966..c010cb3e98df 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -3507,6 +3507,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) QemuOpts *fsdev; QemuOpts *device; + warn_report("The -virtfs_synth option is deprecated and will " + "be removed soon. If the -virtfs_synth option is " + "still useful for you, please send a mail to " + "qemu-devel@nongnu.org with your usecase."); + fsdev = qemu_opts_create(qemu_find_opts("fsdev"), "v_synth", 1, NULL); if (!fsdev) {