[PATCH for-5.0 3/4] Remove the core bluetooth code

Thomas Huth thuth at redhat.com
Sat Feb 1 18:50:34 UTC 2020


On 01/02/2020 17.09, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 11/20/19 10:10 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> It's been deprecated since QEMU v3.1. We've explicitly asked in the
>> deprecation message that people should speak up on qemu-devel in case
>> they are still actively using the bluetooth part of QEMU, but nobody
>> ever replied that they are really still using it.
>>
>> I've tried it on my own to use this bluetooth subsystem for one of my
>> guests, but I was also not able to get it running anymore: When I was
>> trying to pass-through a real bluetooth device, either the guest did
>> not see the device at all, or the guest crashed.
>>
>> Even worse for the emulated device: When running
>>
>>  qemu-system-x86_64 -bt device:keyboard
>>
>> QEMU crashes once you hit a key.
>>
>> So it seems like the bluetooth stack is not only neglected, it is
>> completely bitrotten, as far as I can tell. The only attention that
>> this code got during the past years were some CVEs that have been
>> spotted there. So this code is a burden for the developers, without
>> any real benefit anymore. Time to remove it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  Makefile.objs        |    2 -
>>  bt-host.c            |  198 ----
>>  bt-vhci.c            |  167 ----
>>  configure            |   31 -
>>  hw/Kconfig           |    1 -
>>  hw/Makefile.objs     |    1 -
>>  hw/bt/Kconfig        |    2 -
>>  hw/bt/Makefile.objs  |    3 -
>>  hw/bt/core.c         |  143 ---
>>  hw/bt/hci-csr.c      |  512 ----------
>>  hw/bt/hci.c          | 2263 ------------------------------------------
>>  hw/bt/hid.c          |  553 -----------
>>  hw/bt/l2cap.c        | 1367 -------------------------
>>  hw/bt/sdp.c          |  989 ------------------
>>  include/hw/bt.h      | 2177 ----------------------------------------
>>  include/sysemu/bt.h  |   20 -
>>  qemu-deprecated.texi |    7 -
>>  qemu-options.hx      |   79 --
>>  vl.c                 |  136 ---
>>  19 files changed, 8651 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 bt-host.c
>>  delete mode 100644 bt-vhci.c
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/Kconfig
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/Makefile.objs
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/core.c
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/hci-csr.c
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/hci.c
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/hid.c
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/l2cap.c
>>  delete mode 100644 hw/bt/sdp.c
>>  delete mode 100644 include/hw/bt.h
>>  delete mode 100644 include/sysemu/bt.h
>>
> [...]> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>> index 6099be1d84..ecce4ada2d 100755
>> --- a/configure
>> +++ b/configure
>> @@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ unset target_list_exclude
>>  # Distributions want to ensure that several features are compiled in, and it
>>  # is impossible without a --enable-foo that exits if a feature is not found.
>>  
>> -bluez=""
>>  brlapi=""
>>  curl=""
>>  curses=""
>> @@ -1151,10 +1150,6 @@ for opt do
>>    ;;
>>    --enable-brlapi) brlapi="yes"
>>    ;;
>> -  --disable-bluez) bluez="no"
>> -  ;;
>> -  --enable-bluez) bluez="yes"
>> -  ;;
> 
> Now than I'm bisecting over this commit, I realize removing this
> option was not a good idea, we should have done like commit
> cb6414dfec8 or 315d3184525:
> 
>   @@ -886,10 +885,6 @@ for opt do
>   -  --disable-uuid) uuid="no"
>   -  ;;
>   -  --enable-uuid) uuid="yes"
>   -  ;;
>   ...
>   +  --enable-uuid|--disable-uuid)
>   +      echo "$0: $opt is obsolete, UUID support is always built" >&2
>   +  ;;

Looks trivial ... so if it bugs you, just send a patch?

 Thomas




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