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). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt; --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 +++++++ qemu-options.hx | 4 ++++ vl.c | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 5d2d7a3..cb4291f 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ The @option{[hub_id name]} parameter tuple of the 'hostfwd_add' and The ``ivshmem'' device type is replaced by either the ``ivshmem-plain'' or ``ivshmem-doorbell`` device types. +@subsection bluetooth (since 3.1) + +The bluetooth subsystem is unmaintained since many years and likely bitrotten +quite a bit. It will be removed without replacement unless some users speaks +up at the @email{qemu-devel@(a)nongnu.org} mailing list with information about +their usecases. + @section System emulator machines @subsection pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 (since 3.0) diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 38c7a97..ee379b3 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -2772,6 +2772,10 @@ logic. The Transport Layer is decided by the machine type. Currently the machines @code{n800} and @code{n810} have one HCI and all other machines have none. +Note: This option and the whole bluetooth subsystem is considered as deprecated. +If you still use it, please send a mail to @email{qemu-devel@(a)nongnu.org} where +you describe your usecase. + @anchor{bt-hcis} The following three types are recognized: diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 55bab00..fa25d1a 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -3269,6 +3269,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) break; #endif case QEMU_OPTION_bt: + warn_report("The bluetooth subsystem is deprecated and will " + "be removed soon. If the bluetooth subsystem is " + "still useful for you, please send a mail to " + &quot;qemu-devel(a)nongnu.org with your usecase."); add_device_config(DEV_BT, optarg); break; case QEMU_OPTION_audio_help: -- 1.8.3.1