Am 18.08.2016 um 11:57 schrieb Lin Ma: >>>> Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> 2016/8/17 星期三 下午 2:48 >>> >>Lin Ma <l...@suse.com> writes: >> >>> Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <l...@suse.com> >>> --- >>> qemu-options.hx | 5 ++++- >>> qom/object_interfaces.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ >>> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx >>> index a71aaf8..c5f4a12 100644 >>> --- a/qemu-options.hx >>> +++ b/qemu-options.hx >>> @@ -3752,7 +3752,8 @@ DEF("object", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_object, >>> " create a new object of type TYPENAME setting > properties\n" >>> " in the order they are specified. Note that the > 'id'\n" >>> " property must be set. These objects are placed > in the\n" >>> - " '/objects' path.\n", >>> + " '/objects' path.\n" >>> + " Use '-object help' to print available backend > types.\n", >>> QEMU_ARCH_ALL) >>> STEXI >>> @item -object @var{typename}[,@var{prop1}=@var{value1},...] >>> @@ -3762,6 +3763,8 @@ in the order they are specified. Note that the > 'id' >>> property must be set. These objects are placed in the >>> '/objects' path. >>> >>> +Use '-object help' to print available backend types. >>> + >>> @table @option >>> >>> @item -object > memory-backend-file,id=@var{id},size=@var{size},mem-path=@var{dir},share=@var{on|off} >>> diff --git a/qom/object_interfaces.c b/qom/object_interfaces.c >>> index bf59846..8f820a4 100644 >>> --- a/qom/object_interfaces.c >>> +++ b/qom/object_interfaces.c >>> @@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ Object *user_creatable_add(const QDict *qdict, >>> goto out_visit; >>> } >>> >>> + if (!strcmp(type, "help")) { >> >>Please use is_help_option(). > ok, will do it.
Thanks, otherwise looks good to me. However, I am not really the maintainer of object_interfaces.c, please check the git log and also CC Stefan/Paolo or whomever it was for review. > btw, Should I add the behaviour like -device argument T,help > to show additional help for type T ? Not necessarily in this patch, could be done as follow-up. Cheers, Andreas >>> + printf("Available object backend types:\n"); >>> + GSList *list = object_class_get_list(TYPE_USER_CREATABLE, > false); >>> + while (list) { >>> + const char *name; >>> + name = object_class_get_name(OBJECT_CLASS(list->data)); >>> + /* Ignore user-creatable. */ >>> + if (strcmp(name, TYPE_USER_CREATABLE)) { >>> + printf("%s\n", name); >>> + } >>> + list = list->next; >>> + } >>> + g_slist_free(list); >>> + exit(0); >>> + } >>> + >>> qdict_del(pdict, "id"); >>> visit_type_str(v, "id", &id, &local_err); >>> if (local_err) { -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)