ETEXI
DEF("usb", 0, QEMU_OPTION_usb,
- "-usb enable the USB driver (will be the default soon)\n",
+ "-usb enable the USB driver (if it is not used by default yet)\n",
QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
@item -usb
@findex -usb
-Enable the USB driver (will be the default soon)
+Enable the USB driver (if it is not used by default yet).
ETEXI
DEF("usbdevice", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_usbdevice,
@item -usbdevice @var{devname}
@findex -usbdevice
-Add the USB device @var{devname}. @xref{usb_devices}.
+Add the USB device @var{devname}. Note that this option is deprecated,
+please use @code{-device usb-...} instead. @xref{usb_devices}.
@table @option
window. With this option, you can have QEMU listen on VNC display
@var{display} and redirect the VGA display over the VNC session. It is
very useful to enable the usb tablet device when using this option
-(option @option{-usbdevice tablet}). When using the VNC display, you
+(option @option{-device usb-tablet}). When using the VNC display, you
must use the @option{-k} parameter to set the keyboard layout if you are
not using en-us. Valid syntax for the @var{display} is
qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "usb=on", false);
break;
case QEMU_OPTION_usbdevice:
+ error_report("'-usbdevice' is deprecated, please use "
+ "'-device usb-...' instead");
olist = qemu_find_opts("machine");
qemu_opts_parse_noisily(olist, "usb=on", false);
add_device_config(DEV_USB, optarg);