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

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2013-10-07 09:16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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 ...

So what to do? Do you expect all the other distros to catch up regarding
libusb until QEMU 1.7 is released?

Jan

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