Re: [PATCH] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 09/03/2021 15.45, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/03/21 15:29, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> When trying to remove the -usbdevice option, there were complaints that
>> "-usbdevice braille" is still a very useful shortcut for some people.
>> Thus we never remove this option. Since it's not such a big burden to
>> keep it around, and it's also convenient in the sense that you don't
>> have to worry to enable a host controller explicitly with this option,
>> we should remove it from he deprecation list again, and rather properly
>> document the possible device for this option instead.
>>
>> However, there is one exception: "-usbdevice audio" should go away, since
>> audio devices without "audiodev=..." parameter are also on the deprecation
>> list and you cannot use "-usbdevice audio" with "audiodev".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> 
> It's missing an addition to docs/system/removed-features.rst for "-usbdevice 
> audio"; otherwise looks good.

Well, I guess hardly anybody ever used this since it was completely 
undocumented (try to google it - I just got one
result), but yeah, let's better document it that it's gone
now. I'll send a v2.

  Thomas