From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 07/10] qemu-options: Polish section "Character device options"
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:19:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171220081927.8761-8-armbru@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171220081927.8761-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
---
qemu-options.hx | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 372cbabb7f..80b2331a32 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2502,11 +2502,6 @@ ETEXI
DEFHEADING()
DEFHEADING(Character device options:)
-STEXI
-
-The general form of a character device option is:
-@table @option
-ETEXI
DEF("chardev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_chardev,
"-chardev help\n"
@@ -2552,6 +2547,9 @@ DEF("chardev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_chardev,
)
STEXI
+
+The general form of a character device option is:
+@table @option
@item -chardev @var{backend} ,id=@var{id} [,mux=on|off] [,@var{options}]
@findex -chardev
Backend is one of:
@@ -2575,7 +2573,7 @@ Backend is one of:
@option{spiceport}.
The specific backend will determine the applicable options.
-Use "-chardev help" to print all available chardev backend types.
+Use @code{-chardev help} to print all available chardev backend types.
All devices must have an id, which can be any string up to 127 characters long.
It is used to uniquely identify this device in other command line directives.
@@ -2630,8 +2628,11 @@ to a file to record all data transmitted via the backend. The @option{logappend}
option controls whether the log file will be truncated or appended to when
opened.
-Further options to each backend are described below.
+@end table
+The available backends are:
+
+@table @option
@item -chardev null ,id=@var{id}
A void device. This device will not emit any data, and will drop any data it
receives. The null backend does not take any options.
--
2.13.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-20 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-20 8:19 [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 00/10] Command line patches for 2017-12-18 Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 01/10] qemu-options: Remove stray colons from output of --help Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 02/10] qemu-options: Fix markup of -netdev l2tpv3 Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 03/10] qemu-options qemu-doc: Move "Device URL Syntax" to qemu-doc Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 04/10] qemu-options: Move -iscsi under "Block device options" Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 05/10] qemu-options: Add missing -iscsi Texinfo documentation Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 06/10] qemu-options: Polish section "TPM device options" Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 08/10] qemu-options: Belatedly document --watchdog-action inject-nmi Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 09/10] option: Remove shadowing opt decl from qemu_opt_print() Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 10/10] option: Drop unused get_param_value(), get_next_param_value() Markus Armbruster
2017-12-20 15:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 00/10] Command line patches for 2017-12-18 Peter Maydell
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