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authorLin Ma <lma@suse.com>2016-08-17 01:13:52 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-09-13 19:08:47 +0200
commit517b3d40166f18e321e964e5fe0d6260e92b2121 (patch)
tree86323e58ac4ebb22937efd15eb5cb6dee74a19d0 /qemu-char.c
parent173134467a585c66c43467c71b834cd0b488cf46 (diff)
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chardev: Add 'help' option to print all available chardev backend types
Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <lma@suse.com> Message-Id: <20160816171352.17021-1-lma@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-char.c')
-rw-r--r--qemu-char.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index 5f82ebb..cf6a27a 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
#include "io/channel-file.h"
#include "io/channel-tls.h"
#include "sysemu/replay.h"
+#include "qemu/help_option.h"
#include <zlib.h>
@@ -3879,16 +3880,26 @@ CharDriverState *qemu_chr_new_from_opts(QemuOpts *opts,
const char *id = qemu_opts_id(opts);
char *bid = NULL;
- if (id == NULL) {
- error_setg(errp, "chardev: no id specified");
- goto err;
- }
-
if (qemu_opt_get(opts, "backend") == NULL) {
error_setg(errp, "chardev: \"%s\" missing backend",
qemu_opts_id(opts));
goto err;
}
+
+ if (is_help_option(qemu_opt_get(opts, "backend"))) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Available chardev backend types:\n");
+ for (i = backends; i; i = i->next) {
+ cd = i->data;
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", cd->name);
+ }
+ exit(!is_help_option(qemu_opt_get(opts, "backend")));
+ }
+
+ if (id == NULL) {
+ error_setg(errp, "chardev: no id specified");
+ goto err;
+ }
+
for (i = backends; i; i = i->next) {
cd = i->data;