Re: [PATCH 2/4] stubdom: remove pciutils

On 17.08.2026 18:37, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 10:24:02 +0200, a ecrit:
>> On 17.08.26 09:48, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 09:18:41 +0200, a ecrit:
>>>> There is no user of libpci left in stubdoms.
>>>>
>>>> Remove libpci from the stubdom build system.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be useful to keep this for anybody who would want to drive a
>>> PCI card from a stubdomain?
>>>
>>> I mean, in the zlib case, it's really a mere question of build & link,
>>> so we don't need to ship it, people can do it themselves easily like for
>>> any other library.
>>>
>>> But here there is actual porting work, that we'd better not lose but
>>> keep shipping.
>>
>> This is all still available via git.
> 
> No, it is not really.

Question is - does this matter in the first place? If someone wanted to
drive e.g. a USB device, would we include USB code? I'm with Jürgen that
we should have in the upstream tree only what is also used in-tree.

Jan