The "delay" option was a hack that was introduced to allow writing "nodelay". We are adding a "nodelay" option to be used as "nodelay=on", so recommend it instead of "delay".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- This is quite ugly, so I am posting it as RFC in case others have better idea. Nevertheless, a proper deprecation of "delay" cannot be done if QEMU starts suggesting it, and since it's the only case I opted for this very much ad-hoc patch. --- docs/system/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++ util/qemu-option.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index fcf0ca4068..cfabe69846 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ Boolean options such as ``share=on``/``share=off`` could be written in short form as ``share`` and ``noshare``. This is now deprecated and will cause a warning. +``delay`` option for socket character devices (since 6.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The replacement for the ``nodelay`` short-form boolean option is ``nodelay=on`` +rather than ``delay=off``. + ``--enable-fips`` (since 6.0) ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' diff --git a/util/qemu-option.c b/util/qemu-option.c index 40564a12eb..3057942a5c 100644 --- a/util/qemu-option.c +++ b/util/qemu-option.c @@ -785,7 +785,12 @@ static const char *get_opt_name_value(const char *params, } if (!is_help && warn_on_flag) { warn_report("short-form boolean option '%s%s' deprecated", prefix, *name); - error_printf("Please use %s=%s instead\n", *name, *value); + if (g_str_equal(name, "delay")) { + error_printf("Please use nodelay=%s instead\n", *name, + prefix[0] ? "on" : "off"); + } else { + error_printf("Please use %s=%s instead\n", *name, *value); + } } } } else { -- 2.29.2