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 ... cheers, Gerd
