While the -soundhw option has been deprecated, the way of creating
audio devices is not as easy as with say -usbdevice or -nic.  This is
true especially of HDA devices.

This series introduces a new option called "-audio", which allows
full configuration of the backend and just the model of the frontend.
It is almost as easy to use as "-soundhw", especially because the
user does not have to know about creating a codec device.

Following the previous experience with those options, keep the easy and
useful cases and remove those that complicate the code unnecessarily; in
this case PC speaker support is removed, because it patches the device
instead of creating it, and so is the ability to create >1 device in
one shot.

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (6):
  pc: remove -soundhw pcspk
  soundhw: remove ability to create multiple soundcards
  soundhw: extract soundhw help to a separate function
  soundhw: unify initialization for ISA and PCI soundhw
  soundhw: move help handling to vl.c
  vl: introduce -audio as a replacement for -soundhw

 audio/audio.c                   |   8 +-
 audio/audio.h                   |   1 +
 docs/about/deprecated.rst       |   9 --
 docs/about/removed-features.rst |   7 ++
 hw/audio/intel-hda.c            |   5 +-
 hw/audio/pcspk.c                |  10 ---
 hw/audio/soundhw.c              | 154 ++++++++++++--------------------
 include/hw/audio/soundhw.h      |   8 +-
 qemu-options.hx                 |  51 +++++------
 softmmu/vl.c                    |  30 ++++++-
 10 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)

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