Re: [PATCH 04/14] softmmu: remove '-usbdevice' command line option

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 02:58:19PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 24/02/2021 14.11, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > This was replaced by the '-device usb-DEV' option.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   docs/system/deprecated.rst       |  9 -------
> >   docs/system/removed-features.rst |  9 +++++++
> >   softmmu/vl.c                     | 42 --------------------------------
> >   3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> 
> Last time I tried to remove -usbdevice, there was some concerns that
> -usbdevice braille might still be useful for some people, see the thread
> that started here:
> 
>  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg00651.html
> 
> (and Gerd's summary here:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg01520.html )

Urgh, so the current deprecation docs are a bit misleading by saying
-usbdevice is directly mapped to -device.

> So we might need a new "sugared" option like "-braille" instead before we
> can fully remove -usbdevice? ... or we just keep -usbdevice as a bittersweet
> remainder?

I'm not going to implement new CLI options, and if that's needed, we
ought to re-start the clock on the deprecation at that point. So this
points towards just removing the deprecation warning that exists
today. Or alternatively drop support for -usbdevice, except for the
braille type.

Regards,
Daniel
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