Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

2021-03-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gerd Hoffmann, le jeu. 11 mars 2021 12:37:38 +0100, a ecrit: > Which would also drop support for serial braille devices. Not sure > how much of a problem that would be these days. It is an important concern: we also need to be able to test braille devices connected through serial. Samuel

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

2021-03-11 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > It is arguably the case for disk, > > serial, net, and host, yet we removed those anyway, to make the regular > > and more expressive interface the only one. > > The problem with those devices was that they used their own parameter > parsing code, Yes, that was IMHO the most

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

2021-03-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 11/03/21 09:38, Markus Armbruster wrote: If we decide we want something else, keep -usbdevice braille deprecated until something else is ready, then keep it deprecated for a sensible grace period, then remove it. Flip-flopping deprecation in between is not helpful. If we can't make up our

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

2021-03-11 Thread Thomas Huth
On 11/03/2021 09.38, Markus Armbruster wrote: Thomas Huth writes: When trying to remove the -usbdevice option, there were complaints that "-usbdevice braille" is still a very useful shortcut for some people. Thus we never remove this option. Since it's not such a big burden to keep it around,

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

2021-03-11 Thread Markus Armbruster
Thomas Huth writes: > When trying to remove the -usbdevice option, there were complaints that > "-usbdevice braille" is still a very useful shortcut for some people. > Thus we never remove this option. Since it's not such a big burden to > keep it around, and it's also convenient in the sense

[PATCH 3/4] usb: Un-deprecate -usbdevice (except for -usbdevice audio which gets removed)

2021-03-10 Thread Thomas Huth
When trying to remove the -usbdevice option, there were complaints that "-usbdevice braille" is still a very useful shortcut for some people. Thus we never remove this option. Since it's not such a big burden to keep it around, and it's also convenient in the sense that you don't have to worry to