From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 26/30] docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands: Update for modular QAPI
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 13:42:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180301194245.29854-27-eblake@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180301194245.29854-1-eblake@redhat.com>
From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
With modular code generation, putting stuff right into
qapi-schema.json is a bad idea. Update writing-qmp-commands.txt
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-26-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
---
docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt b/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt
index 4f5b24c0c4c..776b3b41ca0 100644
--- a/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ start with docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt.
Generally speaking, the following steps should be taken in order to write a
new QMP command.
-1. Write the command's and type(s) specification in the QAPI schema file
- (qapi-schema.json in the root source directory)
+1. Define the command and any types it needs in the appropriate QAPI
+ schema module.
2. Write the QMP command itself, which is a regular C function. Preferably,
the command should be exported by some QEMU subsystem. But it can also be
@@ -88,8 +88,9 @@ command carries some meaningful action in QEMU but here it will just print
Our command will be called "hello-world". It takes no arguments, nor does it
return any data.
-The first step is to add the following line to the bottom of the
-qapi-schema.json file:
+The first step is defining the command in the appropriate QAPI schema
+module. We pick module qapi/misc.json, and add the following line at
+the bottom:
{ 'command': 'hello-world' }
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ This is very important. No QMP command will be accepted in QEMU without proper
documentation.
There are many examples of such documentation in the schema file already, but
-here goes "hello-world"'s new entry for the qapi-schema.json file:
+here goes "hello-world"'s new entry for qapi/misc.json:
##
# @hello-world
@@ -425,8 +426,7 @@ There are a number of things to be noticed:
allocated by the implementation. This is so because the QAPI also generates
a function to free its types and it cannot distinguish between dynamically
or statically allocated strings
-6. You have to include the "qmp-commands.h" header file in qemu-timer.c,
- otherwise qemu won't build
+6. You have to include "qapi/qmp-commands-misc.h" in qemu-timer.c
Time to test the new command. Build qemu, run it as described in the "Testing"
section and try this:
--
2.14.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-01 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-01 19:42 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/30] QAPI patches for 2018-03-01 Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 01/30] Include qapi/qmp/qerror.h exactly where needed Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/30] qapi: Streamline boilerplate comment generation Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/30] qapi: Generate up-to-date copyright notice Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/30] qapi: Rename variable holding the QAPISchemaGenFOOVisitor Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 05/30] qapi: New classes QAPIGenC, QAPIGenH, QAPIGenDoc Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 06/30] qapi: Reduce use of global variables in generators some Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 07/30] qapi: Turn generators into modules Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/30] qapi-gen: New common driver for code and doc generators Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/30] qapi-gen: Convert from getopt to argparse Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 10/30] qapi: Touch generated files only when they change Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 11/30] qapi: Improve include file name reporting in error messages Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 12/30] qapi/common: Eliminate QAPISchema.exprs Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 13/30] qapi: Lift error reporting from QAPISchema.__init__() to callers Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 14/30] qapi: Concentrate QAPISchemaParser.exprs updates in .__init__() Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 15/30] qapi: Record 'include' directives in parse tree Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 16/30] qapi: Generate in source order Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 17/30] qapi: Record 'include' directives in intermediate representation Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 18/30] qapi: Rename generated qmp-marshal.c to qmp-commands.c Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/30] qapi: Make code-generating visitors use QAPIGen more Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 20/30] qapi/types qapi/visit: Generate built-in stuff into separate files Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/30] qapi/common: Fix guardname() for funny filenames Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 22/30] qapi: Generate separate .h, .c for each module Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 23/30] Include less of the generated modular QAPI headers Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 24/30] watchdog: Consolidate QAPI into single file Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/30] qapi: Empty out qapi-schema.json Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 27/30] docs: Correct outdated information on QAPI Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 28/30] qapi: Move qapi-schema.json to qapi/, rename generated files Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 29/30] Fix up dangling references to qmp-commands.* in comment and doc Eric Blake
2018-03-01 19:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 30/30] qapi: Don't create useless directory qapi-generated Eric Blake
2018-03-01 20:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/30] QAPI patches for 2018-03-01 no-reply
2018-03-01 21:00 ` Eric Blake
2018-03-01 21:03 ` no-reply
2018-03-01 21:31 ` no-reply
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