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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2015-12-17 11:50:46 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2015-12-17 11:50:46 +0000
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2015-12-17' into staging
QAPI patches for 2015-12-17 # gpg: Signature made Thu 17 Dec 2015 07:33:41 GMT using RSA key ID EB918653 # gpg: Good signature from "Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>" # gpg: aka "Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>" * remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2015-12-17: (40 commits) qapi: Detect base class loops qapi: Move duplicate collision checks to schema check() qapi: Enforce (or whitelist) case conventions on qapi members qapi: Track enum values by QAPISchemaMember, not string qapi: Prepare new QAPISchemaMember base class qapi: Shorter visits of optional fields qapi: Simplify visits of optional fields qapi: Fix alternates that accept 'number' but not 'int' qapi: Inline _make_implicit_tag() qapi-types: Drop unnedeed ._fwdefn qapi: Simplify visiting of alternate types qapi: Convert QType into QAPI built-in enum type qobject: Rename qtype_code to QType qobject: Simplify QObject qapi: Change munging of CamelCase enum values qapi: Add alias for ErrorClass cpu: Convert CpuInfo into flat union qapi: Remove obsolete tests for MAX collision qapi: Don't let implicit enum MAX member collide qapi: Tighten the regex on valid names ... Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/blkdebug.txt7
-rw-r--r--docs/qapi-code-gen.txt30
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/docs/blkdebug.txt b/docs/blkdebug.txt
index b67a36d..43d8e8f 100644
--- a/docs/blkdebug.txt
+++ b/docs/blkdebug.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Block I/O error injection using blkdebug
----------------------------------------
-Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat Inc
+Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Red Hat Inc
This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. See
the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ The core events are:
flush_to_disk - flush the host block device's disk cache
-See block/blkdebug.c:event_names[] for the full list of events. You may need
-to grep block driver source code to understand the meaning of specific events.
+See qapi/block-core.json:BlkdebugEvent for the full list of events.
+You may need to grep block driver source code to understand the
+meaning of specific events.
State transitions
-----------------
diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index ceb9a78..128f074 100644
--- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -118,17 +118,17 @@ tracking optional fields.
Any name (command, event, type, field, or enum value) beginning with
"x-" is marked experimental, and may be withdrawn or changed
-incompatibly in a future release. Downstream vendors may add
-extensions; such extensions should begin with a prefix matching
-"__RFQDN_" (for the reverse-fully-qualified-domain-name of the
-vendor), even if the rest of the name uses dash (example:
-__com.redhat_drive-mirror). Other than downstream extensions (with
-leading underscore and the use of dots), all names should begin with a
-letter, and contain only ASCII letters, digits, dash, and underscore.
-Names beginning with 'q_' are reserved for the generator: QMP names
-that resemble C keywords or other problematic strings will be munged
-in C to use this prefix. For example, a field named "default" in
-qapi becomes "q_default" in the generated C code.
+incompatibly in a future release. All names must begin with a letter,
+and contain only ASCII letters, digits, dash, and underscore. There
+are two exceptions: enum values may start with a digit, and any
+extensions added by downstream vendors should start with a prefix
+matching "__RFQDN_" (for the reverse-fully-qualified-domain-name of
+the vendor), even if the rest of the name uses dash (example:
+__com.redhat_drive-mirror). Names beginning with 'q_' are reserved
+for the generator: QMP names that resemble C keywords or other
+problematic strings will be munged in C to use this prefix. For
+example, a field named "default" in qapi becomes "q_default" in the
+generated C code.
In the rest of this document, usage lines are given for each
expression type, with literal strings written in lower case and
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ The following types are predefined, and map to C as follows:
accepts size suffixes
bool bool JSON true or false
any QObject * any JSON value
+ QType QType JSON string matching enum QType values
=== Includes ===
@@ -383,9 +384,6 @@ where each branch of the union names a QAPI type. For example:
'data': { 'definition': 'BlockdevOptions',
'reference': 'str' } }
-Just like for a simple union, an implicit C enum 'NameKind' is created
-to enumerate the branches for the alternate 'Name'.
-
Unlike a union, the discriminator string is never passed on the wire
for the Client JSON Protocol. Instead, the value's JSON type serves
as an implicit discriminator, which in turn means that an alternate
@@ -1053,7 +1051,7 @@ Example:
const char *const example_QAPIEvent_lookup[] = {
[EXAMPLE_QAPI_EVENT_MY_EVENT] = "MY_EVENT",
- [EXAMPLE_QAPI_EVENT_MAX] = NULL,
+ [EXAMPLE_QAPI_EVENT__MAX] = NULL,
};
$ cat qapi-generated/example-qapi-event.h
[Uninteresting stuff omitted...]
@@ -1070,7 +1068,7 @@ Example:
typedef enum example_QAPIEvent {
EXAMPLE_QAPI_EVENT_MY_EVENT = 0,
- EXAMPLE_QAPI_EVENT_MAX = 1,
+ EXAMPLE_QAPI_EVENT__MAX = 1,
} example_QAPIEvent;
extern const char *const example_QAPIEvent_lookup[];