[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 00/14] USB fail early on win32 without usbclerk

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Uri Lublin <uril at redhat.com> wrote:

> I wasn't aware of this behavior. Is it documented somewhere? Is it really
>> worth keeping? Imho, if it's not user friendly, we better not support it,
>> than to keep code that theorically could do that, but we never try, while
>> for the rest of us it appears to be broken when usbclerk isn't installed.
>>
>
> I mentioned it a few times on the mailing list.
> I don't know what method users prefer.
>

If it's not documented, it's very likely people don't even know it, like
me. Could you point out any doc/readme?


> In the future we want to use a filter driver instead of the WinUSB driver.
> When that happens, we would
> not need usbclerk. When we'd have the filter driver, and when that driver
> is not installed, it would be
> nice to disable usbredir, so I think your patch-set is moving in the right
> direction.
>

In the future, we can always change the code. Currently, the code is meant
to fit usbclerk only.

-- 
Marc-André Lureau
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