Re: [PATCH v2 11/14] hw: skip registration of outdated versioned machine types

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 20/6/24 18:57, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> This calls the MACHINE_VER_DELETION() macro in the machine type
> registration method, so that when a versioned machine type reaches
> the end of its life, it is no longer registered with QOM and thus
> cannot be used.
>
> The actual definition of the machine type should be deleted at
> this point, but experience shows that can easily be forgotten.
> By skipping registration the manual code deletion task can be
> done at any later date.
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   hw/arm/virt.c              | 1 +
>   hw/m68k/virt.c             | 1 +
>   hw/ppc/spapr.c             | 1 +
>   hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 1 +
>   include/hw/i386/pc.h       | 1 +
>   5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>