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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2017-04-27 10:41:25 +0200
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2017-05-09 09:14:40 +0200
commited0ba0f47e8cb6d924db0a54090bbb7b095fe9ea (patch)
tree8db0c0dc4180d6f343a30d8735a0322906e247f6 /include/qapi
parent6c02258e143700314ebf268dae47eb23db17d1cf (diff)
qapi: Document intended use of @name within alternate visits
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1493282486-28338-4-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/qapi/visitor.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/qapi/visitor.h b/include/qapi/visitor.h
index 1a1b62012b..b0e233df76 100644
--- a/include/qapi/visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/visitor.h
@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@
* The @name parameter of visit_type_FOO() describes the relation
* between this QAPI value and its parent container. When visiting
* the root of a tree, @name is ignored; when visiting a member of an
- * object, @name is the key associated with the value; and when
- * visiting a member of a list, @name is NULL.
+ * object, @name is the key associated with the value; when visiting a
+ * member of a list, @name is NULL; and when visiting the member of an
+ * alternate, @name should equal the name used for visiting the
+ * alternate.
*
* The visit_type_FOO() functions expect a non-null @obj argument;
* they allocate *@obj during input visits, leave it unchanged on