Re: [Qemu-devel] List of files containing devices which have not been QOMified

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 09/11/2018 13:39, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 2018-11-09 12:29, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:17:31PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>
>>>> I am also suspicious about hw/bt/ but don't know enough
>>>> about that subsystem to say if it could benefit from
>>>> using QOM objects more.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering whenever anyone would even notice if we just rm -rf hw/bt
>>>
>>> Looking through the changelog for the last five years (after hw/ split)
>>> the only thing I see is fixing warnings from compiler or coverity,
>>> adapting to changes in other systems (chardev for example) and treewide
>>> changes.  Not a *single* patch specific to bluetooth ...
>>
>> Tried this after studying docs:
>>
>>   qemu -usb -device usb-bt-dongle -bt hci,vlan=0 -bt device:keyboard
>>
>> Segfaults right anway on first keypress.
>> I guess that qualifies as "broken and obviously unused".
> 
> Thanks for checking! I guess that means we could even get rid of it
> without deprecating it first if it is broken already for more than two
> releases...?

I think what others were using bluetooth passthrough.  But it's
certainly possible that it's broken.

Paolo