Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] usb: Remove legacy -usbdevice option

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/01/2018 16:59, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 
> But instead of introducing a new "-braille" parameter, maybe we should
> rather keep some of the convenience "-usbdevice" possibilities around?
> E.g. keep "-usbdevice braille", "-usbdevice mouse", etc. but remove
> things like "-usbdevice serial" and "-usbdevice host" where the code is
> rather ugly and the user do not gain much in comparison to "-device" ?

That would work too.  But I'm not sure why keep all the usbdevice
infrastructure when we can do the same (at the price of a small cmdline
incompatibility) with only 50 lines of code.

Paolo