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


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] usb: Remove legacy -usbdevice option
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:11:00 +0100
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On 04/01/2018 16:56, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> However, adding magic to "-device usb-braille" that creates both a
>> front-end and a back-end is completely the opposite of sane...
> Well, this is also what happens with -device usb-mouse, usb-kbd etc.:
> they also plug with keyboard & mouse pipes of the qemu graphical
> frontend. braille is just the same vein for the user.

No, they don't create a new UI object magically that wasn't there
before.  They just let you add a device, e.g. a USB tablet, that listens
on an _existing_ UI (GTK+ or SDL or similar).

Paolo



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