Paolo Bonzini, on jeu. 04 janv. 2018 16:47:16 +0100, wrote: > The point of deprecation is not to make the interface simpler, it is to > avoid cases where one option is doing too much and/or crossing > abstraction boundaries, for example -net creating both a device and a > hub port. > > "-serial" is okay because it only creates the front-end, it's the board > that decides how to attach it to the back-end. > > -usbdevice creating both a front-end and a back-end is not a problem per > se. The issue with -usbdevice is just that it's too much code. > > 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. Samuel
