The -mon pretty=on|off switch of the -mon option applies only the QMP
monitors. It used to be silently ignored for HMP. Deprecate this
combination so that we can make it an error in future versions.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
vl.c | 10 +++++++++-
qemu-deprecated.texi | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 32daa434eb..99a56b5556 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2317,6 +2317,10 @@ static int mon_init_func(void *opaque, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
return -1;
}
+ if (!qmp && qemu_opt_get(opts, "pretty")) {
+ warn_report("'pretty' is deprecated for HMP monitors, it has no effect "
+ "and will be removed in future versions");
+ }
if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "pretty", 0)) {
pretty = true;
}
@@ -2362,7 +2366,11 @@ static void monitor_parse(const char *optarg, const char *mode, bool pretty)
opts = qemu_opts_create(qemu_find_opts("mon"), label, 1, &error_fatal);
qemu_opt_set(opts, "mode", mode, &error_abort);
qemu_opt_set(opts, "chardev", label, &error_abort);
- qemu_opt_set_bool(opts, "pretty", pretty, &error_abort);
+ if (!strcmp(mode, "control")) {
+ qemu_opt_set_bool(opts, "pretty", pretty, &error_abort);
+ } else {
+ assert(pretty == false);
+ }
monitor_device_index++;
}
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 50292d820b..df04f2840b 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ 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 -mon ...,control=readline,pretty=on|off (since 4.1)
+
+The @code{pretty=on|off} switch has no effect for HMP monitors, but is
+silently ignored. Using the switch with HMP monitors will become an
+error in the future.
+
@subsection -realtime (since 4.1)
The @code{-realtime mlock=on|off} argument has been replaced by the
--
2.20.1