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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2024-05-10 15:51:57 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2024-06-05 11:01:05 +0200
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virtio-blk: remove SCSI passthrough functionality
The legacy SCSI passthrough functionality has never been enabled for
VIRTIO 1.0 and was deprecated more than four years ago.

Get rid of it---almost, because QEMU is advertising it unconditionally
for legacy virtio-blk devices.  Just parse the header and return a
nonzero status.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/about')
-rw-r--r--docs/about/deprecated.rst10
-rw-r--r--docs/about/removed-features.rst8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 40585ca7d5..4980d721cf 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -296,16 +296,6 @@ Device options
 Emulated device options
 '''''''''''''''''''''''
 
-``-device virtio-blk,scsi=on|off`` (since 5.0)
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The virtio-blk SCSI passthrough feature is a legacy VIRTIO feature.  VIRTIO 1.0
-and later do not support it because the virtio-scsi device was introduced for
-full SCSI support.  Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required.
-
-Note this also applies to ``-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=on|off``, which is an
-alias.
-
 ``-device nvme-ns,eui64-default=on|off`` (since 7.1)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index fba0cfb0b0..ae6269eb56 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -510,6 +510,14 @@ than zero.
 
 Removed along with the ``compression`` migration capability.
 
+``-device virtio-blk,scsi=on|off`` (since 9.1)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The virtio-blk SCSI passthrough feature is a legacy VIRTIO feature.  VIRTIO 1.0
+and later do not support it because the virtio-scsi device was introduced for
+full SCSI support.  Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required.
+
+
 User-mode emulator command line arguments
 -----------------------------------------