The automatic deprecation mechanism introduced in the preceeding patches
will mark every i440fx machine upto and including 2.12 as deprecated. As
such we can revert the manually added deprecation introduced in:

  commit 792b4fdd4eb8197bd6eb9e80a1dfaf0cb3b54aeb
  Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
  Date:   Wed Feb 28 10:34:35 2024 +0100

    hw/i386/pc: Deprecate 2.4 to 2.12 pc-i440fx machines

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
index 5705d6e155..9445b07b4f 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
@@ -688,7 +688,6 @@ DEFINE_I440FX_MACHINE(3, 0);
 static void pc_i440fx_machine_2_12_options(MachineClass *m)
 {
     pc_i440fx_machine_3_0_options(m);
-    m->deprecation_reason = "old and unattended - use a newer version instead";
     compat_props_add(m->compat_props, hw_compat_2_12, hw_compat_2_12_len);
     compat_props_add(m->compat_props, pc_compat_2_12, pc_compat_2_12_len);
 }
-- 
2.43.0

On 20/6/24 18:57, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The automatic deprecation mechanism introduced in the preceeding patches
> will mark every i440fx machine upto and including 2.12 as deprecated. As
> such we can revert the manually added deprecation introduced in:
> 
>    commit 792b4fdd4eb8197bd6eb9e80a1dfaf0cb3b54aeb
>    Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>    Date:   Wed Feb 28 10:34:35 2024 +0100
> 
>      hw/i386/pc: Deprecate 2.4 to 2.12 pc-i440fx machines
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

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