Re: [Qemu-devel] qdev device documentation (Re: [PATCH 0/2] usb-linux: physical port handling.)

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12 May 2011 19:58, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:
>>> But for things like Spice where the lack of libspice influences
>>> whether the device is available, how do I extract formal documentation
>>> to publish on qemu.org reliably?
>>
>> If no maintainer of QEMU can build with Spice enabled, it got more
>> serious problems than extracting its documentation.
>
> The point isn't that you can arrange to build with option Foo
> enabled but that if the build environment changes accidentally
> there's not much warning that the official docs have suddenly
> lost some devices.

Fair point.  Compare against list of known devices.  That way, all you
keep at bit-rotting distance from code is the list of known devices.

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