qdev: Add description field in PropertyInfo struct

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

Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.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, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
index 84caa1d694..55b6636106 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static void set_drive(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_drive = {
     .name  = "str",
     .legacy_name  = "drive",
+    .description = "ID of a drive to use as a backend",
     .get   = get_drive,
     .set   = set_drive,
     .release = release_drive,
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ static void set_chr(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_chr = {
     .name  = "str",
     .legacy_name  = "chr",
+    .description = "ID of a chardev to use as a backend",
     .get   = get_chr,
     .set   = set_chr,
     .release = release_chr,
@@ -249,6 +251,7 @@ static void set_netdev(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_netdev = {
     .name  = "str",
     .legacy_name  = "netdev",
+    .description = "ID of a netdev to use as a backend",
     .get   = get_netdev,
     .set   = set_netdev,
 };
@@ -329,6 +332,7 @@ static void set_vlan(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_vlan = {
     .name  = "int32",
     .legacy_name  = "vlan",
+    .description = "Integer VLAN id to connect to",
     .print = print_vlan,
     .get   = get_vlan,
     .set   = set_vlan,
diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
index 66556d3bf9..5fc711eb5c 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ static void prop_set_bit(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_bit = {
     .name  = "bool",
     .legacy_name  = "on/off",
+    .description = "on/off",
     .get   = prop_get_bit,
     .set   = prop_set_bit,
 };
@@ -456,6 +457,7 @@ inval:
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_macaddr = {
     .name  = "str",
     .legacy_name  = "macaddr",
+    .description = "Ethernet 6-byte MAC Address, example: 52:54:00:12:34:56",
     .get   = get_mac,
     .set   = set_mac,
 };
@@ -478,6 +480,8 @@ QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(BiosAtaTranslation) != sizeof(int));
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_bios_chs_trans = {
     .name = "BiosAtaTranslation",
     .legacy_name = "bios-chs-trans",
+    .description = "Logical CHS translation algorithm, "
+                   "auto/none/lba/large/rechs",
     .enum_table = BiosAtaTranslation_lookup,
     .get = get_enum,
     .set = set_enum,
@@ -552,6 +556,7 @@ static int print_pci_devfn(DeviceState *dev, Property *prop, char *dest,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_pci_devfn = {
     .name  = "int32",
     .legacy_name  = "pci-devfn",
+    .description = "Slot and optional function number, example: 06.0 or 06",
     .print = print_pci_devfn,
     .get   = get_int32,
     .set   = set_pci_devfn,
@@ -599,6 +604,7 @@ static void set_blocksize(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_blocksize = {
     .name  = "uint16",
     .legacy_name  = "blocksize",
+    .description = "A power of two between 512 and 32768",
     .get   = get_uint16,
     .set   = set_blocksize,
 };
@@ -707,6 +713,8 @@ inval:
 PropertyInfo qdev_prop_pci_host_devaddr = {
     .name = "str",
     .legacy_name = "pci-host-devaddr",
+    .description = "Address (bus/device/function) of "
+                   "the host device, example: 04:10.0",
     .get = get_pci_host_devaddr,
     .set = set_pci_host_devaddr,
 };