Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] usb: remove old usb-host code

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mi, 2013-10-02 at 15:14 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2013-09-19 11:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > The usb-host code has been rewritten for qemu 1.5 to use libusb,
> > the old code has been left in as temporary fallback.  Now we are
> > two releases further out, targeting the 1.7 release.  No major
> > issues with the new code poped up until now.  Time to remove it
> > from tre tree.  Should we ever need it again for some reason --
> > git has a copy for us in the history.
> 
> Well, maybe not many users were actually exploiting the new libusb code,
> thus were able to produce feedback.
> 
> Only very recent distros fulfill the need of >= 1.0.13, so you naturally
> fall back to this code. I just realized that even the factory build of
> OpenSUSE is still on libusb-1.0.9. Current Ubuntu versions are on 1.0.12
> at best. Didn't check others so far.

Ouch.  The 1.0.13 release is one year old by now.

Fedora 19 is at 1.0.16 btw.

> So isn't this step a bit too early?

There is always the 'git revert' option in case it turns out there are
too many issues ...

cheers,
  Gerd