[libvirt] [PATCH 6/6] Use help string "-device driver, " when getting additional caps.

Li Zhang zhlcindy at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 02:23:04 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 02:02:27PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote:
> > From: Li Zhang <zhlcindy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > QEMU of upstream and PPC64 can support "-device driver,?",
> > But the help string is "-device driver,help",
> >
> > This patch is to replace "-device driver,?" with "-device driver,".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c |    4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
> > index a6ac169..839c966 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
> > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
> > @@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr(const char *qemu,
> >       * in combination with '-device ?'.  Upstream qemu 0.12.x doesn't
> >       * understand '-device name,?', and always exits with status 1 for
> >       * the simpler '-device ?', so this function is really only useful
> > -     * if -help includes "device driver,?".  */
> > +     * if -help includes "device driver,".  */
> >      cmd = qemuCapsProbeCommand(qemu, caps, hookData);
> >      virCommandAddArgList(cmd,
> >                           "-device", "?",
> > @@ -2186,7 +2186,7 @@ qemuCapsInitHelp(qemuCapsPtr caps, uid_t runUid,
> gid_t runGid)
> >      /* qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr will only set additional caps if qemu
> >       * understands the 0.13.0+ notion of "-device driver,".  */
> >      if (qemuCapsGet(caps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE) &&
> > -        strstr(help, "-device driver,?") &&
> > +        strstr(help, "-device driver,") &&
> >          qemuCapsExtractDeviceStr(caps->binary, caps, &hookData) < 0)
> >          goto cleanup;
>
> NACK.
>
> For any QEMU version where the help text shows 'driver,help' we should
> be using QMP to determine capabilities.
>

> The -help parsing is only for legacy QEMU versions
>

Got it, thanks. :)


>
> Daniel
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Best Regards
-Li
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