Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de> writes: > Markus Armbruster schrieb: >> Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de> writes: >> >>> Markus Armbruster schrieb: [...] >>>> While there, would you mind improving --help for -device a bit? It's >>>> too terse, and it doesn't start the help text in column 16 like the >>>> other options do. >>> Hi Markus, >>> >>> this needs a little more work. I just had a look on the code, >>> and there is no online help for the possible options (key, value). >> >> What I had in mind was just to bring it up to par with your patch to the >> texi, but... >> >>> If you (and especially those who have commit rights) agree, >>> I could provide these three additional patches: >>> >>> * Add online help for properties (qemu -device driver,?) >>> * Add online help for property value (qemu -device driver,property=?) >>> * Update documentation for command line option -device >> >> ... a patch to provide that is very desirable! >> >> I figure the best way to document available properties and there values >> is a self-documenting struct PropertyInfo: add a doc member, extend >> DEFINE_PROP() & friends to set it, fix up users to pass NULL, and so >> forth. We can then replace the NULL by something useful at our leisure. >> >>> There is already an online help for the driver (qemu -device ?). > > I cannot spend too much time on this, but a very basic help > for "?" is implemented by the patch series I just sent to the list. > > The new feature was already very helpful for me, but it still > can be improved, of course: the driver list contains shows > too many drivers and is not nicely formatted, the help text > for the values could be more user friendly, ...
It's a start. Many thanks!
