[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/8] net: List available netdevs with "-netdev help"

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

Other options like "-chardev" or "-device" feature a nice help text
with the available devices when being called with "help" or "?".
Since it is quite useful, especially if you want to see which network
backends have been compiled into the QEMU binary, let's provide such
a help text for "-netdev", too.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 net/net.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
index e213a61..08049d9 100644
--- a/net/net.c
+++ b/net/net.c
@@ -1086,6 +1086,38 @@ static int net_client_init1(const void *object, bool is_netdev, Error **errp)
     return 0;
 }
 
+static void show_netdevs(void)
+{
+    int idx;
+    const char *available_netdevs[] = {
+        "socket",
+        "hubport",
+        "tap",
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLIRP
+        "user",
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_L2TPV3
+        "l2tpv3",
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_VDE
+        "vde",
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_BRIDGE
+        "bridge",
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETMAP
+        "netmap",
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
+        "vhost-user",
+#endif
+    };
+
+    printf("Available netdev backend types:\n");
+    for (idx = 0; idx < ARRAY_SIZE(available_netdevs); idx++) {
+        puts(available_netdevs[idx]);
+    }
+}
 
 int net_client_init(QemuOpts *opts, bool is_netdev, Error **errp)
 {
@@ -1094,7 +1126,10 @@ int net_client_init(QemuOpts *opts, bool is_netdev, Error **errp)
     int ret = -1;
     Visitor *v = opts_visitor_new(opts);
 
-    {
+    if (is_netdev && is_help_option(qemu_opt_get(opts, "type"))) {
+        show_netdevs();
+        exit(1);
+    } else {
         /* Parse convenience option format ip6-net=fec0::0[/64] */
         const char *ip6_net = qemu_opt_get(opts, "ipv6-net");
 
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1.8.3.1