Command line help explicitly requested by the user should be printed
to stdout, not stderr. We do elsewhere. Adjust -chardev to match:
use qemu_printf() instead of error_printf(). Plain printf() would be
wrong because we need to print to the current monitor for chardev-add
help".
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
---
chardev/char.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
index 514cd6b0c3..54724a56b1 100644
--- a/chardev/char.c
+++ b/chardev/char.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
#include "qemu/config-file.h"
#include "qemu/error-report.h"
+#include "qemu/qemu-print.h"
#include "chardev/char.h"
#include "qapi/error.h"
#include "qapi/qapi-commands-char.h"
@@ -651,7 +652,7 @@ Chardev *qemu_chr_new_from_opts(QemuOpts *opts,
GMainContext *context,
chardev_name_foreach(help_string_append, str);
- error_printf("Available chardev backend types: %s\n", str->str);
+ qemu_printf("Available chardev backend types: %s\n", str->str);
g_string_free(str, true);
return NULL;
}
--
2.17.2
