Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qemu-options.hx: Improve documentation of chardev multiplexing mode

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:28:58PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The current documentation of chardev mux=on is rather brief and opaque;
> expand it to hopefully be a bit more helpful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> There was some discussion on #qemu yesterday evening about multiplexing,
> and "make the docs a bit less confusing" was one suggestion...
> 
> v1->v2 changes:
>  * include examples of the multiplexer use
>  * mention that some other command options implicitly create a mux
>  * link to the documentation of the mux's escape keys
>  * fix up the documentation of mux escape keys so it can actually
>    be linked to
>  * drop the not-implemented "Ctrl-a ?" from the docs
>  * improve the documentation of the mux keys a bit (in particular
>    mentioning -echr, and being more generic than just "console/monitor")
> 
> Our doc structure overall is pretty busted (why is all the documentation
> of generic stuff like -chardev lurking in "PC system emulation", for
> instance), so this is about as far as I want to go in cleaning up
> for now...
> 
>  qemu-doc.texi   | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  qemu-options.hx | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

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