Re: [PATCH-for-4.1? 0/7] vl: Allow building with CONFIG_BLUETOOTH disabled

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 8/14/19 2:45 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 8/13/19 4:04 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:01, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/15/19 3:13 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> On 12/07/2019 15.39, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>>> A series of obvious patches to build without the deprecated
>>>>> bluetooth devices. Still worth for 4.1 or too late?
>>>>> It is clearly not a bugfix.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder whether this series is worth the effort right now, or whether
>>>> we should simply nuke the bluetooth code after 4.1 has been released?
>>>
>>> Well, perfect is the enemy of good :)
>>>
>>> This series is already done and is an improvement to what we have.
>>>
>>> Regarding nuking it, it depends on the Nokia N-series boards, they might
>>> become useless without BT support.
>>
>> Er, they're not useless at all without BT support. The BT
>> hardware is a really tiny part that I doubt many users of
>> the board models ever used. As long as we retain a "simulate
>> doing nothing much" model of the BT device to show the guest
>> I don't care whether the BT backend code disappears.
> 
> OK, I won't insist then.

Bluetooth is dead, long live BT!

v4.2.0-rc0 just got tagged. We should stop linking unmaintained dead 
code. If nobody step in to nuke BT, we should consider applying this 
series before we release QEMU 5.0 with dead Bluetooth. This approach is 
still better than burying our head in the sand.