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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] object: Add 'help' option for all availa
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] object: Add 'help' option for all available backends and properties |
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Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:39:33 +0200 |
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On 26/09/2016 12:16, Lin Ma wrote:
> Print available object backend types and the relevant properties.
>
> V2->v3:
> * make type user-creatable abstract.
> * auto generate enum value strings during qemu configuration.(Borrowwed
> Daniel's code)
> * save the generated enum value strings into member description of
> ObjectProperty.
Frankly, I don't think this is useful. At some point you need to look
at some bigger manual than just the program help.
However, emitting the description of the property is useful.
Paolo
> * drop the judgement logic of whether a property has an enumeration type
> anymore,
> output member description of ObjectProperty directly.
> * at least, user_creatable_help_func should be put after
> 'object_property_add_child(object_get_root(),
> "machine",OBJECT(current_machine), ...)',
> because host_memory_backend_init needs to access an instance of type
> machine.