On 09/11/2018 13:39, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 2018-11-09 12:29, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:17:31PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> I am also suspicious about hw/bt/ but don't know enough >>>> about that subsystem to say if it could benefit from >>>> using QOM objects more. >>> >>> I'm wondering whenever anyone would even notice if we just rm -rf hw/bt >>> >>> Looking through the changelog for the last five years (after hw/ split) >>> the only thing I see is fixing warnings from compiler or coverity, >>> adapting to changes in other systems (chardev for example) and treewide >>> changes. Not a *single* patch specific to bluetooth ... >> >> Tried this after studying docs: >> >> qemu -usb -device usb-bt-dongle -bt hci,vlan=0 -bt device:keyboard >> >> Segfaults right anway on first keypress. >> I guess that qualifies as "broken and obviously unused". > > Thanks for checking! I guess that means we could even get rid of it > without deprecating it first if it is broken already for more than two > releases...?
I think what others were using bluetooth passthrough. But it's certainly possible that it's broken. Paolo
