[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/qemu: enable usb passthrough on host variant

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Fri Oct 25 20:40:14 UTC 2019



On 24/10/2019 23:30, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:
> 
>  >> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBUSB),y)
> 
>  > So, if the target libusb package is enabled...
> 
>  >> +HOST_QEMU_OPTS += --enable-libusb
>  >> +HOST_QEMU_DEPENDENCIES += host-libusb
> 
>  > ... you assume the user wants libusb support in host-qemu.
> 
>  > Sorry, but this is not good. Add an option in
>  > package/qemu/Config.in.host to enable USB passthrough, and use that in
>  > qemu.mk.

 host-libusb takes 1 second to build (*). Is it really worth to make an option
for it?

 Regards,
 Arnout

(*) Yes, I'm exaggerating :-)

> 
> And pass --disable-libusb (if such option exists) in the else clause.
> 


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