On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 02:14:02PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > It has been unmaintained since years, and there were only trivial or > > tree-wide changes to the related files since many years, so the > > code is likely very bitrotten and broken. For example the following > > segfaults as soon as as you press a key: > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -usb -device usb-bt-dongle -bt hci -bt device:keyboard > > > > Since we are not aware of anybody using bluetooth with the current > > version of QEMU, let's mark the subsystem as deprecated, with a special > > request for the users to write to the qemu-devel mailing list in case > > they still use it (so we could revert the deprecation status in that > > case). > > I think that settles the bluetooth debate for now. We deprecate it, > wait for feedback, possibly un-deprecate (parts of) the code. Next > year we'll actually remove the unused code. > > Patch queued for 3.1. FWIW, libvirt has never exposed any of the bluetooth functionality, so no objections to removing it from our side. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
