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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2025-05-21 08:37:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2025-05-28 06:53:04 +0200 |
| commit | 428d1789df911bc863e55eed2d8f33ce991cbd09 (patch) | |
| tree | c6692095ba3d0676400bfb03cea906aaf9fb436a | |
| parent | 80db93b2b88f9b3ed8927ae7ac74ca30e643a83e (diff) | |
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docs/about: Belatedly document tightening of QMP device_add checking
Commit 4d8b0f0a9536 (v6.2.0) deprecated incorrectly typed device_add
arguments. Commit be93fd53723c (qdev-monitor: avoid QemuOpts in QMP
device_add) fixed them for v9.2.0, but neglected to update
documentation. Do that now.
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250521063711.29840-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
[Commit message typo corrected]
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/removed-features.rst | 9 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 44d3427..9665bc6 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -187,20 +187,6 @@ threads (for example, it only reports source side of multifd threads, without reporting any destination threads, or non-multifd source threads). For debugging purpose, please use ``-name $VM,debug-threads=on`` instead. -Incorrectly typed ``device_add`` arguments (since 6.2) -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' - -Due to shortcomings in the internal implementation of ``device_add``, QEMU -incorrectly accepts certain invalid arguments: Any object or list arguments are -silently ignored. Other argument types are not checked, but an implicit -conversion happens, so that e.g. string values can be assigned to integer -device properties or vice versa. - -This is a bug in QEMU that will be fixed in the future so that previously -accepted incorrect commands will return an error. Users should make sure that -all arguments passed to ``device_add`` are consistent with the documented -property types. - Host Architectures ------------------ diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 063284d..92b5ba6 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -722,6 +722,15 @@ Use ``multifd-channels`` instead. Use ``multifd-compression`` instead. +Incorrectly typed ``device_add`` arguments (since 9.2) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Due to shortcomings in the internal implementation of ``device_add``, +QEMU used to incorrectly accept certain invalid arguments. Any object +or list arguments were silently ignored. Other argument types were not +checked, but an implicit conversion happened, so that e.g. string +values could be assigned to integer device properties or vice versa. + QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) events ---------------------------------- |