On 01/05/2024 20.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
The new deprecation and deletion policy for versioned machine types is
being introduced in QEMU 9.1.0.
Under the new policy a number of old machine types (any prior to 2.12)
would be liable for immediate deletion which would be a violation of our
historical deprecation and removal policy
Thus automatic deletions (by skipping QOM registration) are temporarily
gated on existance of the env variable "QEMU_DELETE_MACHINES" / QEMU
version number >= 10.1.0. This allows opt-in testing of the automatic
deletion logic, while activating it fully in QEMU >= 10.1.0.
If we include your patches now, the old machine types will be marked as
deprecated in QEMU 9.1 and 9.2, so it should be OK to remove them in 10.0
already, shouldn't it?
Thomas
