From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX7f9-0005El-II for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:42:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX7f6-0001wG-Mb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:42:35 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX7f6-0001uD-ER for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:42:32 -0500 References: <1515071752-22961-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <20180104140930.7hbtnen3lw7epmrh@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> <20180104141524.m5xy66jsn2hiajwl@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> <20180104142101.rivje5qn5dasb6jw@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> <20180104152402.fv52umjmlb2g22wc@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> From: Thomas Huth Message-ID: <2289a88d-ee7a-d6e9-6dfd-8f92d5c599dd@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:42:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] usb: Remove legacy -usbdevice option List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini , Samuel Thibault Cc: Peter Maydell , kraxel@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 04.01.2018 16:28, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 04/01/2018 16:24, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Maybe we can add "-braille" instead. >> I guess such legacy-looking option would be frowned up :) > > Not really. As long as it doesn't propagate everywhere in device code, > it's fine. We are not going to deprecate "-serial mon:stdio", so... Hmm, maybe we could also introduce a "-serial usb:braille" command that automagically also creates an usb-braille device, to avoid to introduce a new "-braille" command? It's bending the meaning of "-serial" quite a bit, though... Thomas