On 09.01.2018 10:58, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/01/2018 08:23, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>> But instead of introducing a new "-braille" parameter, maybe we should >>>> rather keep some of the convenience "-usbdevice" possibilities around? >>>> E.g. keep "-usbdevice braille", "-usbdevice mouse", etc. but remove >>>> things like "-usbdevice serial" and "-usbdevice host" where the code is >>>> rather ugly and the user do not gain much in comparison to "-device" ? >>> That would work too. But I'm not sure why keep all the usbdevice >>> infrastructure when we can do the same (at the price of a small cmdline >>> incompatibility) with only 50 lines of code. >> I'm just afraid that we will end up with more new parameters in the end >> than just "-braille" - or do we feel confident enough that "-usbdevice >> braille" is the only one that would need a sugared replacement? > > I agree that we should plan for suboptions, so it could be "-braille > [serial|usb]" for now.
I'm rather afraid that someone else will also complain about the removal of the other usbdevice options, so that we'll finally end up with new -usbhost, -usbbt and -usbyounameit convenience options... in that case it might be better to keep "-usbdevice" instead? Thomas
