Re: [PATCH 09/14] hw: temporarily disable deletion of versioned machine types

[Thomas Huth]

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