Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] qemu-img convert: Deprecate using -n and -o together

[Nir Soffer]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:11 PM Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:

> bdrv_create options specified with -o have no effect when skipping image
> creation with -n, so this doesn't make sense. Warn against the misuse
> and deprecate the combination so we can make it a hard error later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-img.c           | 5 +++++
>  qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
> index 79983772de..d9321f6418 100644
> --- a/qemu-img.c
> +++ b/qemu-img.c
> @@ -2231,6 +2231,11 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)
>          goto fail_getopt;
>      }
>
> +    if (skip_create && options) {
> +        warn_report("-o has no effect when skipping image creation");
> +        warn_report("This will become an error in future QEMU versions.");
> +    }
> +
>      s.src_num = argc - optind - 1;
>      out_filename = s.src_num >= 1 ? argv[argc - 1] : NULL;
>
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index fff07bb2a3..7673d079c5 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -305,6 +305,13 @@ to just export the entire image and then mount only
> /dev/nbd0p1 than
>  it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a
>  subset of the image.
>
> +@subsection qemu-img convert -n -o (since 4.2.0)
> +
> +All options specified in @option{-o} are image creation options, so they
> +have no effect when used with @option{-n} to skip image creation. This
> +combination never made sense and shows that the user misunderstood the
> +effect of the options, so this will be made an error in future versions.
>

The user misunderstood by not reading qemu code?

Both the online help and the manual page do not mention anything about
that, so I think
they should be fixed to explain the behavior, and this text should mention
that the behavior
was never documented.

Nir


> +
>  @section Build system
>
>  @subsection Python 2 support (since 4.1.0)
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
>