include/hw: temporarily disable deletion of versioned machine types
authorDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:57:37 +0000 (17:57 +0100)
committerPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Tue, 2 Jul 2024 04:58:31 +0000 (06:58 +0200)
commitc9fd2d9a48ee3c195cf83cc611b87b09f02f0013
treef9c3e2909cd6735a844ff73255616b6464eb5c44
parenta35f8577a0789fe883047afb13a45ecfae4f0107
include/hw: temporarily disable deletion of versioned machine types

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.

This whole commit should be reverted in the 10.1.0 dev cycle or shortly
thereafter.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240620165742.1711389-10-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
include/hw/boards.h