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0/7] vl: Allow building with CONFIG_BLUETOOTH disabled From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= To: Peter Maydell References: <20190712133928.21394-1-philmd@redhat.com> <421f2fb2-6e8d-7579-029a-e8de726c6a5e@redhat.com> <56d102b4-3f55-7070-c012-56ad65138873@redhat.com> <4ed2e2b7-91b0-197f-7532-bf9daac075bf@redhat.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 20:09:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4ed2e2b7-91b0-197f-7532-bf9daac075bf@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Thomas Huth , QEMU Developers , Markus Armbruster , qemu-arm , Gerd Hoffmann , Paolo Bonzini , Miroslav Rezanina Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 8/14/19 2:45 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 wrote: > On 8/13/19 4:04 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 15:01, Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 wrote: >>> On 7/15/19 3:13 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>> On 12/07/2019 15.39, Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 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 wheth= er >>>> 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 mi= ght >>> 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. >=20 > 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=20 code. If nobody step in to nuke BT, we should consider applying this=20 series before we release QEMU 5.0 with dead Bluetooth. This approach is=20 still better than burying our head in the sand.