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authorRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>2021-11-10 11:25:03 +0100
committerRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>2021-11-10 11:25:03 +0100
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Merge tag 'pull-qapi-2021-11-10' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru into staging
QAPI patches patches for 2021-11-10 # gpg: Signature made Wed 10 Nov 2021 06:21:23 AM CET # gpg: using RSA key 354BC8B3D7EB2A6B68674E5F3870B400EB918653 # gpg: issuer "armbru@redhat.com" # gpg: Good signature from "Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>" [full] # gpg: aka "Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>" [full] * tag 'pull-qapi-2021-11-10' of git://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru: qapi: Belatedly mark unstable QMP parts with feature 'unstable' docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Belatedly document feature documentation docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Drop a duplicate paragraph Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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+++ b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst
@@ -956,15 +956,16 @@ definition must have documentation.
Definition documentation starts with a line naming the definition,
followed by an optional overview, a description of each argument (for
commands and events), member (for structs and unions), branch (for
-alternates), or value (for enums), and finally optional tagged
-sections.
+alternates), or value (for enums), a description of each feature (if
+any), and finally optional tagged sections.
-Descriptions of arguments can span multiple lines. The description
-text can start on the line following the '\@argname:', in which case it
-must not be indented at all. It can also start on the same line as
-the '\@argname:'. In this case if it spans multiple lines then second
-and subsequent lines must be indented to line up with the first
-character of the first line of the description::
+The description of an argument or feature 'name' starts with
+'\@name:'. The description text can start on the line following the
+'\@name:', in which case it must not be indented at all. It can also
+start on the same line as the '\@name:'. In this case if it spans
+multiple lines then second and subsequent lines must be indented to
+line up with the first character of the first line of the
+description::
# @argone:
# This is a two line description
@@ -986,6 +987,12 @@ The number of spaces between the ':' and the text is not significant.
Extensions added after the definition was first released carry a
'(since x.y.z)' comment.
+The feature descriptions must be preceded by a line "Features:", like
+this::
+
+ # Features:
+ # @feature: Description text
+
A tagged section starts with one of the following words:
"Note:"/"Notes:", "Since:", "Example"/"Examples", "Returns:", "TODO:".
The section ends with the start of a new section.
@@ -1000,12 +1007,6 @@ multiline argument descriptions.
A 'Since: x.y.z' tagged section lists the release that introduced the
definition.
-The text of a section can start on a new line, in
-which case it must not be indented at all. It can also start
-on the same line as the 'Note:', 'Returns:', etc tag. In this
-case if it spans multiple lines then second and subsequent
-lines must be indented to match the first.
-
An 'Example' or 'Examples' section is automatically rendered
entirely as literal fixed-width text. In other sections,
the text is formatted, and rST markup can be used.