Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] drop libxml2 checks since libxml is not actually used (for parallels)

[Thomas Huth]

On 20/01/2022 12.05, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@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-e6e0ec431be9@openvz.org/

Commit ed279a06c53784 also add a hunk to scripts/checkpatch.pl ... you might 
want to remove that now, too.

 Thomas