[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/6] qemu-option: Introduce has_help_option()

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

This new function checks if any help option ('help' or '?') occurs
anywhere in an option string, so that things like 'cluster_size=4k,help'
are recognised.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 include/qemu/option.h |  1 +
 util/qemu-option.c    | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qemu/option.h b/include/qemu/option.h
index 3ea871a..8d44167 100644
--- a/include/qemu/option.h
+++ b/include/qemu/option.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ void parse_option_size(const char *name, const char *value,
 void free_option_parameters(QEMUOptionParameter *list);
 void print_option_parameters(QEMUOptionParameter *list);
 void print_option_help(QEMUOptionParameter *list);
+bool has_help_option(const char *param);
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
 
diff --git a/util/qemu-option.c b/util/qemu-option.c
index 668e5d9..ce1eba8 100644
--- a/util/qemu-option.c
+++ b/util/qemu-option.c
@@ -450,6 +450,30 @@ fail:
     return NULL;
 }
 
+bool has_help_option(const char *param)
+{
+    size_t buflen = strlen(param) + 1;
+    char *buf = g_malloc0(buflen);
+    const char *p = param;
+    bool result = false;
+
+    while (*p) {
+        p = get_opt_value(buf, buflen, p);
+        if (*p) {
+            p++;
+        }
+
+        if (is_help_option(buf)) {
+            result = true;
+            goto out;
+        }
+    }
+
+out:
+    free(buf);
+    return result;
+}
+
 /*
  * Prints all options of a list that have a value to stdout
  */
-- 
1.8.1.4