On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 15:00 +0200, arm...@redhat.com wrote: > From: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> > > Marcel's recent improvements (commit dbd94f8..125ee0e) go in the right > direction, but there are issues (see PATCH 1/2), and I find the > resulting help output still hard to read. > > This series redoes the help printing part of Marcel's series. Result > looks like this (moxie picked as example for brevity): > > $ qemu-system-moxie -device help > Controller/Bridge/Hub devices: > name "usb-host", bus usb-bus > name "usb-hub", bus usb-bus > > Storage devices: > name "scsi-block", bus SCSI, desc "SCSI block device passthrough" > name "scsi-cd", bus SCSI, desc "virtual SCSI CD-ROM" > name "scsi-disk", bus SCSI, desc "virtual SCSI disk or CD-ROM (legacy)" > name "scsi-generic", bus SCSI, desc "pass through generic scsi device > (/dev/sg*)" > name "scsi-hd", bus SCSI, desc "virtual SCSI disk" > > Input devices: > name "isa-serial", bus ISA > name "usb-kbd", bus usb-bus > name "usb-mouse", bus usb-bus > name "usb-tablet", bus usb-bus > > Misc devices: > name "smbus-eeprom", bus i2c-bus > name "usb-redir", bus usb-bus > > Additionally, "info qdm" is again just like "device_add help" with > no-user devices included.
I think that adding the category in each line may be useful when using grep, but I suppose that we can grep by category with -A x. Thanks for continuing to improve the help output. Marcel, Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marce...@redhat.com> > > Markus Armbruster (2): > Mostly revert "qemu-help: Sort devices by logical functionality" > qdev-monitor: Group "device_add help" and "info qdm" by category > > include/hw/qdev-core.h | 16 ---------- > qdev-monitor.c | 85 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- > 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) >
