[libvirt PATCH] docs: Rephrase the video 'none' type to clarify the reasoning

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Tue Sep 8 11:45:38 UTC 2020


On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 01:07:42PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On a Tuesday in 2020, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > On 9/8/20 11:59 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  docs/formatdomain.rst | 17 ++++++++++-------
> > >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > This is a tiny follow-up improvement resulting from [1] as I felt the paragraph
> > > wasn't clear enough + there were a couple of typographical issues.
> > > [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-September/msg00329.html
> > >
> > > diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
> > > index 1979dfb8d3..cf3ccbecc5 100644
> > > --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
> > > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
> > > @@ -5784,13 +5784,16 @@ A video device.
> > >     value "vga", "cirrus", "vmvga", "xen", "vbox", "qxl" ( :since:`since 0.8.6`
> > >     ), "virtio" ( :since:`since 1.3.0` ), "gop" ( :since:`since 3.2.0` ), "bochs"
> > >     ( :since:`since 5.6.0` ), "ramfb" ( :since:`since 5.9.0` ), or "none" (
> > > -   :since:`since 4.6.0` , depending on the hypervisor features available. The
> > > -   purpose of the type ``none`` is to instruct libvirt not to add a default
> > > -   video device in the guest (see the paragraph above). This legacy behaviour
> > > -   can be inconvenient in cases where GPU mediated devices are meant to be the
> > > -   only rendering device within a guest and so specifying another ``video``
> > > -   device along with type ``none``. Refer to Host device assignment to see how
> > > -   to add a mediated device into a guest.
> > > +   :since:`since 4.6.0`) , depending on the hypervisor features available.
> >
> > Looks like we like an extra space before ')' in this paragraph.
> >
>
> That is just the result of the automatic conversion.
>
> The version without spaces in parentheses seems to render just fine for
> me, so we can change it.

Yes, it doesn't matter, but I stayed consistent and pushed it with the space,
like you say, if anyone wants they can send a trivial patch.

Erik




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