From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMCCJ-0002G1-8O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:24:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMCCE-00058p-Rk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:24:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMCCE-00057q-LF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:24:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:23:44 +0000 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20181112132344.GO3602@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <1542016830-19189-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <20181112131402.kxoi724a2iw6kwsj@sirius.home.kraxel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181112131402.kxoi724a2iw6kwsj@sirius.home.kraxel.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH] bt: Mark the bluetooth subsystem as deprecated List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Thomas Huth , Peter Maydell , libvir-list@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Andrzej Zaborowski , Paolo Bonzini , Andrzej Zaborowski On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 02:14:02PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > It has been unmaintained since years, and there were only trivial or > > tree-wide changes to the related files since many years, so the > > code is likely very bitrotten and broken. For example the following > > segfaults as soon as as you press a key: > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -usb -device usb-bt-dongle -bt hci -bt device:keyboard > > > > Since we are not aware of anybody using bluetooth with the current > > version of QEMU, let's mark the subsystem as deprecated, with a special > > request for the users to write to the qemu-devel mailing list in case > > they still use it (so we could revert the deprecation status in that > > case). > > I think that settles the bluetooth debate for now. We deprecate it, > wait for feedback, possibly un-deprecate (parts of) the code. Next > year we'll actually remove the unused code. > > Patch queued for 3.1. FWIW, libvirt has never exposed any of the bluetooth functionality, so no objections to removing it from our side. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|