vl: deprecate the "-hdachs" option

If the user needs to specify the disk geometry, the corresponding
parameters of the "-device ide-hd" option should be used instead.
"-hdachs" is considered as deprecated and might be removed soon.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1493270454-1448-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

qemu-options.hx

@@ -803,8 +803,8 @@ STEXI
 Force hard disk 0 physical geometry (1 <= @var{c} <= 16383, 1 <=
 @var{h} <= 16, 1 <= @var{s} <= 63) and optionally force the BIOS
 translation mode (@var{t}=none, lba or auto). Usually QEMU can guess
-all those parameters. This option is useful for old MS-DOS disk
-images.
+all those parameters. This option is deprecated, please use
+@code{-device ide-hd,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,...} instead.
 ETEXI
 
 DEF("fsdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_fsdev,

vl.c

@@ -3231,6 +3231,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
                         }
                     }
                 }
+                error_report("'-hdachs' is deprecated, please use '-device"
+                             " ide-hd,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,...' instead");
                 break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_numa:
                 opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("numa"),