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

[Thomas Huth]

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...?

 Thomas