tree 3621d13c24bc340449eb2ab7f071961afbb766b3
parent 541abd10a01da56c5f16582cd32d67114ec22a5c
author Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> 1447349394 -0200
committer Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> 1448451757 +0200

osdep: Change default value of qemu_hw_version() to "2.5+"

There are two issues with qemu_hw_version() today:

1) If a machine has hw_version set, the value returned by it is
   not very useful, because it is not the actual QEMU version.
2) If a machine does't set hw_version, the return value of
   qemu_hw_version() is broken, because it will change when
   upgrading QEMU.

For those reasons, using qemu_hw_version() is strongly
discouraged, and should be used only in code that used
QEMU_VERSION in the past and needs to keep compatibility.

To fix (2), instead of making every machine broken by default
unless they set hw_version, make qemu_hw_version() simply return
"2.5+" if qemu_set_hw_version() is not called.

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>