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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2018-11-12 11:00:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 2018-11-12 14:08:17 +0100 |
| commit | c0188e69d336b5c921e026b3307e70b6ea7e9a47 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f64412d5d8d1e8e6c8e3db9fc45ddb13f911ded | |
| parent | 460f0236c12a86a38692c12d9bf8e2391dc10a77 (diff) | |
bt: Mark the bluetooth subsystem as deprecated
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@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1542016830-19189-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-deprecated.texi | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vl.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 5d2d7a3588..cb4291f1e5 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@@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 38c7a978c1..ee379b32e3 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@@nongnu.org} where +you describe your usecase. + @anchor{bt-hcis} The following three types are recognized: @@ -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 " + "qemu-devel@nongnu.org with your usecase."); add_device_config(DEV_BT, optarg); break; case QEMU_OPTION_audio_help: |