As the list of options isn't fixed we do all the parsing by hand. Without any named arguments we automatically fill the "file" option with the value give so check if it is requesting help and dump some basic usage text.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> --- plugins/loader.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/plugins/loader.c b/plugins/loader.c index 513a429c57..ebc01da9c6 100644 --- a/plugins/loader.c +++ b/plugins/loader.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include "qemu/osdep.h" #include "qemu/error-report.h" #include "qemu/config-file.h" +#include "qemu/help_option.h" #include "qapi/error.h" #include "qemu/lockable.h" #include "qemu/option.h" @@ -98,7 +99,12 @@ static int plugin_add(void *opaque, const char *name, const char *value, bool is_on; char *fullarg; - if (strcmp(name, "file") == 0) { + if (is_help_option(value)) { + printf("Plugin options\n"); + printf(" file=<path/to/plugin.so>\n"); + printf(" plugin specific arguments\n"); + exit(0); + } else if (strcmp(name, "file") == 0) { if (strcmp(value, "") == 0) { error_setg(errp, "requires a non-empty argument"); return 1; -- 2.39.2