net: Remove the legacy "-net channel" parameter

It has never been documented, so hardly anybody knows about this
parameter, and it is marked as deprecated since QEMU v2.6.
Time to let it go now.

Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

include/net/slirp.h

@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ void hmp_hostfwd_remove(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);
 
 int net_slirp_redir(const char *redir_str);
 
-int net_slirp_parse_legacy(QemuOptsList *opts_list, const char *optarg, int *ret);
-
 int net_slirp_smb(const char *exported_dir);
 
 void hmp_info_usernet(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict);

net/net.c

@@ -1565,13 +1565,6 @@ int net_init_clients(void)
 
 int net_client_parse(QemuOptsList *opts_list, const char *optarg)
 {
-#if defined(CONFIG_SLIRP)
-    int ret;
-    if (net_slirp_parse_legacy(opts_list, optarg, &ret)) {
-        return ret;
-    }
-#endif
-
     if (!qemu_opts_parse_noisily(opts_list, optarg, true)) {
         return -1;
     }

net/slirp.c

@@ -956,37 +956,3 @@ int net_init_slirp(const Netdev *netdev, const char *name,
 
     return ret;
 }
-
-int net_slirp_parse_legacy(QemuOptsList *opts_list, const char *optarg, int *ret)
-{
-    if (strcmp(opts_list->name, "net") != 0 ||
-        strncmp(optarg, "channel,", strlen("channel,")) != 0) {
-        return 0;
-    }
-
-    error_report("The '-net channel' option is deprecated. "
-                 "Please use '-netdev user,guestfwd=...' instead.");
-
-    /* handle legacy -net channel,port:chr */
-    optarg += strlen("channel,");
-
-    if (QTAILQ_EMPTY(&slirp_stacks)) {
-        struct slirp_config_str *config;
-
-        config = g_malloc(sizeof(*config));
-        pstrcpy(config->str, sizeof(config->str), optarg);
-        config->flags = SLIRP_CFG_LEGACY;
-        config->next = slirp_configs;
-        slirp_configs = config;
-        *ret = 0;
-    } else {
-        Error *err = NULL;
-        *ret = slirp_guestfwd(QTAILQ_FIRST(&slirp_stacks), optarg, 1, &err);
-        if (*ret < 0) {
-            error_report_err(err);
-        }
-    }
-
-    return 1;
-}
-

qemu-doc.texi

@@ -2670,11 +2670,6 @@ The ``-smb /some/dir'' argument is now a synonym for setting
 the ``-netdev user,smb=/some/dir'' argument instead. The new
 syntax allows different settings to be provided per NIC.
 
-@subsection -net channel (since 2.6.0)
-
-The ``--net channel,ARGS'' argument is now a synonym for setting
-the ``-netdev user,guestfwd=ARGS'' argument instead.
-
 @subsection -net vlan (since 2.9.0)
 
 The ``-net vlan=NN'' argument is partially replaced with the