From: Gonglei <arei.gong...@huawei.com> PATCH 1 and PATCH 2 are bugfixes. PATCH 3~7 add a description field in both ObjectProperty and PropertyInfo struct. The descriptions can serve as documentation in the code, and they can be used to provide better help. For example:
Before this patch series: $./qemu-system-x86_64 -device virtio-blk-pci,? virtio-blk-pci.iothread=link<iothread> virtio-blk-pci.x-data-plane=bool virtio-blk-pci.scsi=bool virtio-blk-pci.config-wce=bool virtio-blk-pci.serial=str virtio-blk-pci.secs=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.heads=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.cyls=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.discard_granularity=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.bootindex=int32 virtio-blk-pci.opt_io_size=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.min_io_size=uint16 virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=uint16 virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=uint16 virtio-blk-pci.drive=str virtio-blk-pci.virtio-backend=child<virtio-blk-device> virtio-blk-pci.command_serr_enable=on/off virtio-blk-pci.multifunction=on/off virtio-blk-pci.rombar=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.romfile=str virtio-blk-pci.addr=pci-devfn virtio-blk-pci.event_idx=on/off virtio-blk-pci.indirect_desc=on/off virtio-blk-pci.vectors=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.ioeventfd=on/off virtio-blk-pci.class=uint32 After: $./qemu-system-x86_64 -device virtio-blk-pci,? virtio-blk-pci.iothread=link<iothread> virtio-blk-pci.x-data-plane=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.scsi=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.config-wce=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.serial=str virtio-blk-pci.secs=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.heads=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.cyls=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.discard_granularity=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.bootindex=int32 virtio-blk-pci.opt_io_size=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.min_io_size=uint16 virtio-blk-pci.physical_block_size=uint16 (A power of two between 512 and 32768) virtio-blk-pci.logical_block_size=uint16 (A power of two between 512 and 32768) virtio-blk-pci.drive=str (ID of a drive to use as a backend) virtio-blk-pci.virtio-backend=child<virtio-blk-device> virtio-blk-pci.command_serr_enable=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.multifunction=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.rombar=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.romfile=str virtio-blk-pci.addr=int32 (The slot number of a pci device) virtio-blk-pci.event_idx=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.indirect_desc=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.vectors=uint32 virtio-blk-pci.ioeventfd=bool (on/off) virtio-blk-pci.class=uint32 Gonglei (7): qom: add error handler for object_property_print() qom: add error handler for object alias property qdev: add description field in PropertyInfo struct qom: add description field in ObjectProperty struct qdev: set the object property's description to the qdev property's. qmp: print descriptions of object properties qdev: drop legacy_name from qdev properties hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c | 8 ++++---- hw/core/qdev-properties.c | 12 ++++++------ hw/core/qdev.c | 3 +++ include/hw/qdev-core.h | 2 +- include/qom/object.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ qmp.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- qom/object.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- target-ppc/translate_init.c | 2 +- 8 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.4
