From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Harsh Prateek Bora" <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
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"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
"Yanan Wang" <wangyanan55@huawei.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Cédric Le Goater" <clegoate@redhat.com>,
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"Laurent Vivier" <laurent@vivier.eu>,
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"Daniel Henrique Barboza" <danielhb413@gmail.com>,
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"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] hw: temporarily disable deletion of versioned machine types
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 13:05:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48986ad1-ae23-4ff1-9494-cae9b485deae@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240501182759.2934195-10-berrange@redhat.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-02 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-01 18:27 [PATCH 00/14] hw: define and enforce a standard lifecycle for versioned machines Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 01/14] include/hw: add helpers for defining versioned machine types Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 10:34 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-09 14:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 14:57 ` Eric Blake
2024-05-02 16:54 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-09 14:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 02/14] hw/arm: convert 'virt' machine definitions to use new macros Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 12:11 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 03/14] hw/s390x: convert 'ccw' " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 11:12 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 04/14] hw/ppc: convert 'spapr' " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 11:57 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 05/14] hw/m68k: convert 'virt' " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 12:00 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 06/14] hw/i386: convert 'i440fx' " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 07/14] hw/i386: convert 'q35' " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 08/14] include/hw: add macros for deprecation & removal of versioned machines Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 10:59 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-09 14:42 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 09/14] hw: temporarily disable deletion of versioned machine types Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 11:05 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2024-05-02 11:13 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 10/14] hw: set deprecation info for all " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 11:06 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 11/14] hw: skip registration of outdated " Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 12:02 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 12/14] hw/ppc: remove obsolete manual deprecation reason string of spapr machines Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 12:04 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 13/14] hw/i386: remove obsolete manual deprecation reason string of i440fx machines Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 12:08 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-02 12:15 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-01 18:27 ` [PATCH 14/14] docs: document special exception for machine type deprecation & removal Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-02 9:47 ` Thomas Huth
2024-05-02 9:53 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-05-03 11:46 ` [PATCH 00/14] hw: define and enforce a standard lifecycle for versioned machines Cédric Le Goater
2024-05-03 12:14 ` Peter Maydell
2024-05-03 12:34 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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