Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] usb: remove old usb-host code

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> >> 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 ...
> 
> So what to do? Do you expect all the other distros to catch up regarding
> libusb until QEMU 1.7 is released?

They will update once they figure this is needed for qemu 1.7 :)
Updates will probably not yet be available at release time though.

If we revert, thereby continue fallback to the old code, chances are
high that nothing happens and we'll face the same issue for qemu 1.8.

Given that there are some known issues in the host-linux code which are
fixed in host-libusb I really want get rid of it.

cheers,
  Gerd