qom: Add description field in ObjectProperty struct

The descriptions can serve as documentation in the code,
and they can be used to provide better help.

Copy property descriptions when copying alias properties.

Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h
index 8a05a81a99..89c3092967 100644
--- a/include/qom/object.h
+++ b/include/qom/object.h
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ typedef struct ObjectProperty
 {
     gchar *name;
     gchar *type;
+    gchar *description;
     ObjectPropertyAccessor *get;
     ObjectPropertyAccessor *set;
     ObjectPropertyResolve *resolve;
@@ -1275,6 +1276,19 @@ void object_property_add_alias(Object *obj, const char *name,
                                Error **errp);
 
 /**
+ * object_property_set_description:
+ * @obj: the object owning the property
+ * @name: the name of the property
+ * @description: the description of the property on the object
+ * @errp: if an error occurs, a pointer to an area to store the error
+ *
+ * Set an object property's description.
+ *
+ */
+void object_property_set_description(Object *obj, const char *name,
+                                     const char *description, Error **errp);
+
+/**
  * object_child_foreach:
  * @obj: the object whose children will be navigated
  * @fn: the iterator function to be called
diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 575291f109..a751367e61 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ static void object_property_del_all(Object *obj)
 
         g_free(prop->name);
         g_free(prop->type);
+        g_free(prop->description);
         g_free(prop);
     }
 }
@@ -803,6 +804,7 @@ void object_property_del(Object *obj, const char *name, Error **errp)
 
     g_free(prop->name);
     g_free(prop->type);
+    g_free(prop->description);
     g_free(prop);
 }
 
@@ -1672,10 +1674,28 @@ void object_property_add_alias(Object *obj, const char *name,
     }
     op->resolve = property_resolve_alias;
 
+    object_property_set_description(obj, name,
+                                    target_prop->description,
+                                    &error_abort);
+
 out:
     g_free(prop_type);
 }
 
+void object_property_set_description(Object *obj, const char *name,
+                                     const char *description, Error **errp)
+{
+    ObjectProperty *op;
+
+    op = object_property_find(obj, name, errp);
+    if (!op) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    g_free(op->description);
+    op->description = g_strdup(description);
+}
+
 static void object_instance_init(Object *obj)
 {
     object_property_add_str(obj, "type", qdev_get_type, NULL, NULL);