On 20/01/2022 12.05, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
From: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru>
For a long time, we assumed that libxml2 is neecessary for parallels
block format support (block/parallels*). However, this format actually
does not use libxml [*]. Since this is the only user of libxml2 in
while qemu tree, we can drop all libxml2 checks and dependencies too.
s/while/whole/
It is even more: --enable-parallels configure option was the only
option which was silently ignored when it's (fake) dependency
(libxml2) isn't installed.
Drop all mentions of libxml2.
[*] Actually the basis for libxml use were merged in commit 25bfd5a75
but the implementation was never merged:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/70227bbd-a517-70e9-714f-e6e0ec431...@openvz.org/
Commit ed279a06c53784 also add a hunk to scripts/checkpatch.pl ... you might
want to remove that now, too.
Thomas
