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 :|