[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 1/5] Rename spice-usbredir-filter option to spice-usbredir-auto-redirect-filter

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Fri Sep 28 12:33:01 PDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:18:06PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 05:32:21PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > The spice-usbredir-filter cmdline option was not chosen well, as it does
> > not indicate what it filters. Now that we are also getting a filter for
> > selecting already plugged in devices to redirect when a spice connection gets
> > established, it needs to be renamed to make its function more clear.
> 
> This is some kind of ABI break as scripts using the old option name will be
> broken. You don't seem to be reusing the old name for something else in
> this series, so maybe we can keep it and output a deprecation warning when
> it's used for now? On the other hand, this option is probably not widely
> used, so maybe breaking things now will not be too bad...
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=823541 seems to
> indicate there's at least one user of it.

Apart from this concern, ACK series.

Christophe
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