From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35602) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTrR1-0004u2-SE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:56:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTrQu-0007r3-IS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:56:07 -0400 Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:32614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTrQu-0007oR-5v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:56:00 -0400 Message-ID: <52553638.7000801@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:55:52 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1379583298-7524-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1379583298-7524-2-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <524C1C42.8050502@siemens.com> <1381130180.13574.13.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> In-Reply-To: <1381130180.13574.13.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] usb: remove old usb-host code List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 2013-10-07 09:16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mi, 2013-10-02 at 15:14 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2013-09-19 11:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> The usb-host code has been rewritten for qemu 1.5 to use libusb, >>> the old code has been left in as temporary fallback. Now we are >>> two releases further out, targeting the 1.7 release. No major >>> issues with the new code poped up until now. Time to remove it >>> from tre tree. Should we ever need it again for some reason -- >>> git has a copy for us in the history. >> >> Well, maybe not many users were actually exploiting the new libusb code, >> thus were able to produce feedback. >> >> Only very recent distros fulfill the need of >= 1.0.13, so you naturally >> fall back to this code. I just realized that even the factory build of >> OpenSUSE is still on libusb-1.0.9. Current Ubuntu versions are on 1.0.12 >> at best. Didn't check others so far. > > Ouch. The 1.0.13 release is one year old by now. > > Fedora 19 is at 1.0.16 btw. > >> So isn't this step a bit too early? > > There is always the 'git revert' option in case it turns out there are > too many issues ... So what to do? Do you expect all the other distros to catch up regarding libusb until QEMU 1.7 is released? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux