Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/12] Various qemu command line options help improvements

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/09/2018 09:59, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a compilation of patches I have to improve command line help
> support. The "qemu-option" patches have already been sent earlier, I
> modified the first to fix an issue reported by Markus. The other
> patches add support for -object help. A few related patches for QOM,
> to fix/improve some minor issues.
> 
> v2: after Eric Blake review
> - add "qdev-monitor: print help to stdout"
> - add "cutils: add qemu_pstrcmp"
> - use consistently "arg=type - desc" help format

Feel free to send a pull request yourself with the minor fixes requested
during review.

Paolo

> Marc-André Lureau (12):
>   qdev-monitor: print help to stdout
>   cutils: add qemu_pstrcmp
>   qemu-option: add help fallback to print the list of options
>   qemu-option: improve qemu_opts_print_help() output
>   qom/object: fix iterating properties over a class
>   qom/object: register 'type' property as class property
>   tests/qom-proplist: check duplicate "bv" property registration failed
>   tests/qom-proplist: check properties are not listed multiple times
>   tests/qom-proplist: check class properties iterator
>   vl: handle -object help
>   hostmem: add some properties description
>   vl: list user creatable properties when 'help' is argument
> 
>  include/monitor/monitor.h  |  2 ++
>  include/qemu/cutils.h      | 12 +++++++
>  backends/hostmem-memfd.c   |  9 +++++
>  backends/hostmem.c         | 14 ++++++++
>  monitor.c                  | 16 +++++++--
>  qdev-monitor.c             | 32 ++++++++++-------
>  qom/object.c               |  9 ++---
>  qom/object_interfaces.c    |  6 ++--
>  tests/check-qom-proplist.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  util/cutils.c              |  5 +++
>  util/qemu-option.c         | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  vl.c                       | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  12 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
>