From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59121) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKvWl-0004yV-Je for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 12:47:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKvWk-00027I-Kx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 12:47:47 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:56271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKvWk-00027A-HQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 12:47:46 -0400 Received: by gwb19 with SMTP id 19so1112245gwb.4 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 09:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DCD60AF.5090107@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:47:43 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Should new USB devices such as usb-ccid support legacy -usbdevice? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Alon Levy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann On 05/13/2011 11:36 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > When Gerd qdevified USB, he kept legacy -usbdevice working (commit > 0958b4cc...). What about new USB devices? Should they get a legacy > syntax, too? > > The only existing new device is usb-ccid, and it got one in commit > 36707144. What keeps -usbdevice from being a light wrapper to -device such that no future code is needed for this? I know some of the names are different but presumably we could use a map for existing ones and pass through names for newer ones. Regards, Anthony Liguori