[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] Remove the deprecated -balloon option

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Mon Aug 27 14:54:09 UTC 2018


The "-balloon" option has been replaced by "-device virtio-balloon".
It's been marked as deprecated since two releases, and nobody
complained, so let's remove it now.

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
---
 docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt |  6 +++---
 qemu-deprecated.texi          |  5 -----
 qemu-options.hx               | 10 ----------
 vl.c                          | 36 ------------------------------------
 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
index 9985e1d..1732cc8 100644
--- a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
+++ b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ It's also important to note the following:
    respond to the request the timer will never be re-armed, which has
    the same effect as disabling polling
 
-Here are a few examples. QEMU is started with '-balloon virtio', which
-generates '/machine/peripheral-anon/device[1]' as the QOM path for the
-balloon device.
+Here are a few examples. QEMU is started with '-device virtio-balloon',
+which generates '/machine/peripheral-anon/device[1]' as the QOM path for
+the balloon device.
 
 Enable polling with 2 seconds interval:
 
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 1b9c007..98f5062 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ enabled via the ``-machine usb=on'' argument.
 
 The ``-nodefconfig`` argument is a synonym for ``-no-user-config``.
 
- at subsection -balloon (since 2.12.0)
-
-The @option{--balloon virtio} argument has been superseded by
- at option{--device virtio-balloon}.
-
 @subsection -fsdev handle (since 2.12.0)
 
 The ``handle'' fsdev backend does not support symlinks and causes the 9p
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 654ef48..ccf7155 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -454,16 +454,6 @@ modprobe i810_audio clocking=48000
 @end example
 ETEXI
 
-DEF("balloon", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_balloon,
-    "-balloon virtio[,addr=str]\n"
-    "                enable virtio balloon device (deprecated)\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
-STEXI
- at item -balloon virtio[,addr=@var{addr}]
- at findex -balloon
-Enable virtio balloon device, optionally with PCI address @var{addr}. This
-option is deprecated, use @option{-device virtio-balloon} instead.
-ETEXI
-
 DEF("device", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_device,
     "-device driver[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
     "                add device (based on driver)\n"
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 5ba06ad..674c42f 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2127,36 +2127,6 @@ static void parse_display(const char *p)
     }
 }
 
-static int balloon_parse(const char *arg)
-{
-    QemuOpts *opts;
-
-    warn_report("This option is deprecated. "
-                "Use '--device virtio-balloon' to enable the balloon device.");
-
-    if (strcmp(arg, "none") == 0) {
-        return 0;
-    }
-
-    if (!strncmp(arg, "virtio", 6)) {
-        if (arg[6] == ',') {
-            /* have params -> parse them */
-            opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("device"), arg + 7,
-                                           false);
-            if (!opts)
-                return  -1;
-        } else {
-            /* create empty opts */
-            opts = qemu_opts_create(qemu_find_opts("device"), NULL, 0,
-                                    &error_abort);
-        }
-        qemu_opt_set(opts, "driver", "virtio-balloon", &error_abort);
-        return 0;
-    }
-
-    return -1;
-}
-
 char *qemu_find_file(int type, const char *name)
 {
     int i;
@@ -3660,12 +3630,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             case QEMU_OPTION_no_hpet:
                 no_hpet = 1;
                 break;
-            case QEMU_OPTION_balloon:
-                if (balloon_parse(optarg) < 0) {
-                    error_report("unknown -balloon argument %s", optarg);
-                    exit(1);
-                }
-                break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_no_reboot:
                 no_reboot = 1;
                 break;
-- 
1.8.3.1




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