On 2013-10-07 09:16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mi, 2013-10-02 at 15:14 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2013-09-19 11:34, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> The usb-host code has been rewritten for qemu 1.5 to use libusb, >>> the old code has been left in as temporary fallback. Now we are >>> two releases further out, targeting the 1.7 release. No major >>> issues with the new code poped up until now. Time to remove it >>> from tre tree. Should we ever need it again for some reason -- >>> git has a copy for us in the history. >> >> Well, maybe not many users were actually exploiting the new libusb code, >> thus were able to produce feedback. >> >> Only very recent distros fulfill the need of >= 1.0.13, so you naturally >> fall back to this code. I just realized that even the factory build of >> OpenSUSE is still on libusb-1.0.9. Current Ubuntu versions are on 1.0.12 >> at best. Didn't check others so far. > > Ouch. The 1.0.13 release is one year old by now. > > Fedora 19 is at 1.0.16 btw. > >> So isn't this step a bit too early? > > There is always the 'git revert' option in case it turns out there are > too many issues ...
So what to do? Do you expect all the other distros to catch up regarding libusb until QEMU 1.7 is released? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
