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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 1/4] qdev: Add a description field
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Amit Shah |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 1/4] qdev: Add a description field for qdev properties for documentation |
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:07:45 +0530 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On (Thu) 17 Feb 2011 [07:12:42], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 02/17/2011 07:06 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >On (Tue) 15 Feb 2011 [10:43:42], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> >>> #define DEFINE_BLOCK_PROPERTIES(_state, _conf) \
> >>>- DEFINE_PROP_DRIVE("drive", _state, _conf.bs), \
> >>>+ DEFINE_PROP_DRIVE("drive", _state, _conf.bs, ""), \
> >>> DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("logical_block_size", _state, \
> >>>- _conf.logical_block_size, 512), \
> >>>+ _conf.logical_block_size, 512, ""), \
> >>> DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("physical_block_size", _state, \
> >>>- _conf.physical_block_size, 512), \
> >>>- DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("min_io_size", _state, _conf.min_io_size, 0), \
> >>>- DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("opt_io_size", _state, _conf.opt_io_size, 0), \
> >>>- DEFINE_PROP_INT32("bootindex", _state, _conf.bootindex, -1), \
> >>>+ _conf.physical_block_size, 512, ""), \
> >>>+ DEFINE_PROP_UINT16("min_io_size", _state, _conf.min_io_size, 0, ""), \
> >>>+ DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("opt_io_size", _state, _conf.opt_io_size, 0, ""), \
> >>>+ DEFINE_PROP_INT32("bootindex", _state, _conf.bootindex, -1, ""), \
> >>> DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("discard_granularity", _state, \
> >>>- _conf.discard_granularity, 0)
> >>>+ _conf.discard_granularity, 0, "")
> >>This is pretty horribly ugly. If we were going this, we should at
> >>least introduce new defines that include a documentation field and
> >>not just add empty documentation fields.
> >We've discussed this in the past. Once this patch series gets in,
> >I'll work to fill in the documentation here along with the
> >maintainers.
>
> It means you're touching everything twice instead of touching
> everything once. That's unnecessary churn and blame breakage.
Well no one can claim to be good enough to document each and every
parameter for each device that qemu has. The infrastructure has to be
laid out, then the documentation can be filled in by the subsystem
maintainers. I'm willing to co-ordinate that activity, as discussed
earlier.
Amit
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 1/4] qdev: Add a description field for qdev properties for documentation, Amit Shah, 2011/02/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 1/4] qdev: Add a description field for qdev properties for documentation, Markus Armbruster, 2011/02/18
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 3/4] net.h: Add description fields for qdev properites, Amit Shah, 2011/02/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 4/4] block_int.h: Provide documentation for common block qdev properties, Amit Shah, 2011/02/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 0/4] Auto-document qdev devices, Markus Armbruster, 2011/02/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH REBASE/RESEND 0/4] Auto-document qdev devices, Anthony Liguori, 2011/02/15